Category Archives: News

The Chateau Hotel and Conference Center could re-open in a week to 10 days after fixing an alarm system.  Reports indicate that system stopped working sometime in early November. The hotel was cl...

Governor Rauner is accusing top state Democrats of plotting against him to force a government shutdown.  Comptroller Susana Mendoza has gotten a judge's okay to dip into the same fund Governor Ra...

Congressman Darin LaHood says he's not there yet on the Republican plan to move past Obamacare. LaHood told Cities 929 yesterday that he's skeptical of the plan. LaHood says voters clearly want 'repea...

A government report says Caterpillar didn't mistakenly send billion of dollars through a foreign subsidiary. The report says Cat committed fraud. "The New York Times" yesterday published a piece of a ...

Governor Rauner says Rivian could one day be worth thousands of jobs in the Twin Cities. The governor stopped by the old Mitsubishi plant yesterday to help cut the ribbon. The governor said Illinois o...

Illinois' governor says he worries the state 'won't do well' under the latest plan to change Obamacare. Governor Bruce Rauner yesterday at Rivian Automotivi in Normal said the state may lose out if Co...

Winter weather could return this weekend in Illinois.  The National Weather Service says snow is likely throughout a large portion of the state Saturday.  Temps will be dropping into the low...

Tina Salamone, director of the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts for the past 3 years, has died. Salamone passed away suddenly at her Bloomington residence on Sunday, according to Jay Tetzlof...

The town of Normal insists the Metro Zone isn't finished. Town leaders last night said Bloomington cannot end the west side tax sharing agreement on its own. So the deal is not finished. Normal says i...

It's going to take a few hours to get a sense of just how much damage last night's storms brought to central Illinois. A strong line of storms cut across the middle part of the state. At one point aft...