Eric Stock
News DirectorEric Stock is WGLT's News Director.
Eric worked at WJBC (Radio Bloomington) from 2004-2018 as a reporter, anchor, assignment editor, and sports director. Stock follows in the footsteps of Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker and retired News Director Willis Kern in moving from Radio Bloomington’s WJBC to WGLT.
Eric's community involvement includes the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and serving as a McLean County 4-H Judge. He is also a Bloomington-Normal Area Sports Commission member and broadcasts play-by-play sports at Illinois Wesleyan University.
Contact Eric at ejstoc1@ilstu.edu.
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Last year, the city paid $750,000 for an engineering firm to design the plan that includes improved walkability, lighting, expanded public art and significant infrastructure improvements.
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Jon Farney, an Illinois State University alum, took over as State Farm president from Michael Tipsword at the start of the year. He’s been with State Farm since 1993.
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Green Top Grocery in Bloomington has never come close to the benchmarks that a market study suggested it could when it opened seven years ago. Volunteer Melanie Shellito said the study projected annual sales of up to $12 million, but the store has generally been in the $3 million to $4 million range annually.
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Woodford County Coroner Tim Ruestman said in a news release Victoria Nguyen, 44, was pronounced dead at the scene. The crash happened about two miles east of Carlock at about 8:07 a.m.
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As Bloomington mayor, Judy Markowitz led a successful campaign to add sexual orientation to the city's anti-discrimination ordinance in 2002.
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Illinois Senate Republicans are accusing the Pritzker administration of not being transparent about how much the state is spending on services for migrants. The governor's proposed budget calls for $182 million to support the influx of asylum seekers.
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In the 1980s, when jail was about the only place many suffering mental illness were sent, Judy Buchanan worked with administrators at BroMenn Hospital in Normal to accept and treat those patients.
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Mount Pisgah, at 801 W. Market St., is one of Bloomington-Normal’s largest predominantly Black churches. The church shifted to online services on Sunday.
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According to a statement from the university, the board reached a consensus to pursue Tarhule as its next permanent president after a presidential search committee led on-campus interviews with four finalists that emerged from a nationwide search.
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A criminal justice professor and longtime cop says officers were justified in shooting a armed man on Interstate 55 near Lexington last month.