Lauren Warnecke
Deputy News DirectorLauren Warnecke is the Deputy News Director at WGLT. She joined the station as a correspondent in 2020 with a focus on arts and culture and became a full-time staff member in 2023. She became Deputy News Director in 2025.
You can reach Lauren at lewarne@ilstu.edu and 309-438-7869.
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“They’re going to try to give us anything to look at other than the gas approaching $5 a gallon,” U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen said during a visit to Normal this week. -
Bloomington-Normal native Jennifer Rusk is known around town for her dazzling vocals. As the century-old Community Players Theatre performs the Twin Cities' first-ever "Dreamgirls," she's giving others the spotlight. -
Students and staff at Normal Community High School returned home Tuesday after a call broadly threatening the school prompted an emergency response. -
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. -
With an additional $1.6 million Sorensen plans to pursue through the appropriations process this year, federal grants would cover well over half of a major upgrade to Uptown's overwhelmed sewer system. -
In a press conference Friday morning, McLean County Clerk Kathy Michael said scrutiny about her office's spending in 2025 was a politically-motivated attempt to slander her in an election year. -
Jerald Sandage had a 2022 conviction overturned alleging he assaulted women targeted by accessing police records while he was employed as a university police officer in Champaign-Urbana. A jury this week convicted Sandage a second time. -
An experimental music ensemble made up of high schoolers from Normal has dropped a new LP and is preparing for a concert at the McLean County Museum of History. -
The union representing building, grounds and dining workers at Illinois State attempted to gain a temporary restraining order preventing the university from contracting janitorial services during a work stoppage. A judge denied the request. -
Illinois State Athletics has announced plans to discontinue its men’s tennis program, effective at the end of the spring 2026 semester.
