By WMBD-TV BLOOMINGTON – The Illinois primary election wrapped up Tuesday night – and no surprise it was President Joe Biden and Donald Trump winning in their respective parties. Mike O’Neal wins the GOP primary for McLean County Board District 2 Mike O’Neal has won the Republican primary to replace a retiring member of the…… MORE
The numbers are in from St. Patrick’s Day traffic enforcement in Livingston County.… MORE
State finals are in the books for high school boys’ and girls’ basketball around the state, which means the end of a contract with host sites in Champaign and Bloomington-Normal.… MORE
One person is dead after a three-vehicle collision just north of where Interstates 55 and 74 merge, the Illinois State Police said.… MORE
By WMBD-TV PEKIN – Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley has identified the victim of Sunday’s nights one-car crash. According to Hanley’s Facebook, 51-year-old Dennis Speck of Mapleton death was caused by multiple blunt force injuries due to the car crash. The crash occurred near the intersection of Illinois Route 9 and Mennonite Church Road in rural…… MORE
An executive order, which the governor signed Monday, takes on sickle cell disease. It’s diagnosed at birth and expensive to treat.… MORE
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Illinoisans lost hundreds of millions of dollars to internet crimes last year.… MORE
Illinois State University’s Interim President has dropped the interim title, as the Board of Trustees named him the University’s 21st President.… MORE
By WMBD-TV PEKIN – Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley reported that a man is dead after a single-vehicle crash near Illinois Route 9 and Mennonite Church Road in rural Pekin at approximately 2:32 p.m. on Sunday. According to Hanley, a 51-year-old rural Mapleton man was pronounced dead at the scene at approximately 3:05 p.m. The…… MORE
One of the top cops at the Normal Police Department now has the backing of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.… MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…