Eric Stock

Today is Census Day, when many local governments, schools and civic organizations were planning to ramp up efforts to ensure everyone gets counted. This is to ensure their communities get their share of government funding and representation.

The Catholic Diocese of Peoria will be closing its schools next week, including Central Catholic High School and Corpus Christi grade school in Bloomington and Epiphany school in Normal due to concerns about COVID-19.

Amtrak is notifying passengers and employees who may have been on a train carrying a passenger who may have the coronavirus. That train traveling from Chicago to St. Louis last Wednesday stopped at Uptown Station in Normal.

The head of Illinois Senate Republicans called it “irresponsible” to build a state budget based on revenue from a graduated income tax that voters haven't considered yet.

An Illinois Wesleyan University professor is studying brain waves in baseball players to see if their ability to focus can be measured and improved.

The Illinois High School Association has scrapped a controversial plan to shift its playoff and scheduling format for football starting in 2021.

Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert said Tuesday the new U.S. trade agreement with Canada and Mexico will make two of the state's top export markets even stronger.

The Salvation Army’s bell ringer campaign is well under way, and you may notice a new addition to the red kettles.

Everyone has a holiday horror story. But it's not easy to keep controversy away from the holiday, not perhaps even advisable.

Editor's note: This is part of a five-story series reported at the Housing Action Illinois conference in Bloomington on Oct. 24-25. The stories ran Wednesday, Oct. 30, on WGLT's Sound Ideas.

A Bloomington architect is taking her passion for historic architecture to one of the state's most iconic structures: the Illinois Capitol building.

Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman has announced he plans to seek re-election in 2020.

Climate change advocates will be presenting a report in Normal that they say presents a stark choice: make major efforts to reduce greenhouse gases or watch temperatures rise to dangerous levels.

This is the last in a four-part series about how the USDA’s trade relief payments are playing out in Central Illinois. It was produced by WGLT and WCBU.

The head of the Illinois State Rifle Association said it's likely Congress will take some action to restrict gun access in the wake of two more mass shootings in the United States, and he’s concerned lawmakers will go too far.

Julie Catey of Broadwell loves shopping at the Dollar Tree store in neighboring Lincoln.

An economist predicts Illinois' 19-cent-per-gallon gas tax hike will cause many Illinoisans to drive less, even if we haven't changed our habits just yet.

Paul DeJong didn't put away his curiosity for science when he graduated from Illinois State University.

The Illinois high school basketball finals are where the term March Madness was coined.

All this talk of bipartisanship in the Illinois legislature is a bit overblown, according to a veteran state lawmaker who opposed much of the legislation that Gov. J.B Pritzker and Democratic leaders pushed through in what some political observers have called an historic legislative session.

A series of accounting errors could lead to changes in how public broadcasters file for federal grants.

Illinois State University President Larry Dietz and the editor of ISU's alumni magazine say they have apologized to a couple whose picture was criticized in a letter to the editor. Susan Marquardt Blystone is listed as the editor on ISU's website.

An Illinois State University marketing professor plans to use her new role with the NCAA to help it root out academic misconduct.

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said he's not sure how much President Donald Trump's attorney general will let Congress see of Robert Mueller's report into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Attorneys representing clergy abuse victims have presented a report which details the alleged sexual misconduct by 400 Catholic priests in Illinois.

Protesters who have fought a proposed federal immigration detention center in Dwight aren't giving up, even after the village formally endorsed the project.

UPDATED 2:50 p.m. | Rivian has announced online shopping giant Amazon is leading a $700 million equity investment in the electric vehicle startup in Normal.

A McLean County judge has granted a new trial for a man serving 60 years in prison for the stabbing death of his father in 1991.