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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McLean County Republicans say they have to rely on community events and grassroots fundraising to compete with Gov. JB Pritzker and other big Democratic donors. -
More than 12,000 have already cast ballots in McLean County this election. -
McLean County's main governing body had historically been led by Republicans. That is, until 2024, when Democrats won a majority of seats on the 20-member board. Democrats hold 12 seats, all in Bloomington-Normal. -
For OCD Awareness Week from Oct. 11-17, WGLT spoke with Claire Nichols about her experience with the disorder and licensed clinical professional counselor Shannon Griffith about when to get checked out. -
The two candidates running for the open seat in McLean County Board District 9 are both new to the county board but have served the community in different ways. -
County officials hope updated documentation, estimates, invoices and receipts will strengthen the aid request following the August storms. -
Mayor Chris Koos says the town's decision to extend a six-month moratorium through next spring would help it prepare for any new state regulations that could come this fall. -
The Ecology Action Center had thought the county's recycling rate in 2024 topped 50% for the first time ever when it was actually 43%. In calculating the 2025 numbers, the center found data previously confirmed was misreported by another agency. -
About 100 students from Central Catholic High School in Bloomington were among the tens of thousands of Catholics who witnessed the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen move closer to sainthood. -
The McLean County Treasurer’s Office says it sent certified letters on Thursday to more than 1,100 taxpayers in the Octavia Park District in Colfax notifying them of the error in which they will underbilled $24,345.
