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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AFSCME said more than 95% of the 300-plus affected workers who cast votes approved the deal. -
Families of Normal Community High School students are now being permitted to pick up their children after an unspecified threat led to the cancellation of classes on Tuesday. -
A Central Illinois Regional Airport spokesperson confirms that service is pushed back until Oct. 24 at the earliest due to Federal Aviation Administration restrictions at O’Hare. -
The fuel cost tracker Gas Buddy says the average cost of regular unleaded in McLean County is $4.82 per gallon, up from $4.20 last week. -
An ISU spokesperson said university administration contacted the federal mediator Thursday morning to indicate their willingness to resume negotiations with AFSCME Local 1110. ISU says the session with the mediator is planned for Monday. -
The East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging and the University of Illinois Extension are both leaders in the Bloomington-Normal Dementia-Friendly Task Force. The new group wants to set objectives for supporting those with dementia and their families through a survey which closes June 15. -
The Red Cross will be at The Hub at the Government Center in Downtown Bloomington from 3 to 7 p.m. Friday. -
Police said no arrests have been made. The department has not said whether they have identified any suspects. All six shooting victims are out of the hospital. -
Glen Nelson, vice president of finance and planning at Illinois State University, said the union and ISU continue to have three sticking points concerning back pay and future salary raises. ISU has said it has already offered the union its best and final deal. -
Since the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park was backed by the state about two years ago, quantum technology developers have been looking to grow the sector's workforce. "Quantum Across Illinois" is visiting the state's universities, including Illinois State, to recruit students and promote the initiative.
