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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Chief Judge Casey Costigan and Associate Judge Amy McFarland said litigants aren't doing themselves any favors by using artificial intelligence in place of public defenders. -
Bradley Beyer was the co-director of McLean County elections until September 2025. He's been granted conditional release while awaiting trial. -
Republican state Rep. Dennis Tipsword wants to reform the Pretrial Fairness Act by changing the burden of proof from the prosecutor to the defendant. Domestic violence advocacy organizations want to focus more on the implementation of the law instead of changing it. -
Hosted by the League of Women Voters, the event profiled three recent laws aimed at reforming bail, public defense and relief for formerly incarcerated people who've served their time. -
Historian Barry McNealy teaches high school history and works with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. He'll give a public talk at Eureka College on March 27. -
A shortage of child care options has worsened in recent months following the closure of Kidsville, Bright Horizons and one of two Cadence Academy locations. -
Eswin Ixcotoyac-Tzoy, 23, is accused of posing as a juvenile on social media and traveling to Bloomington to meet a teenage girl.
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The Bloomington-based singer-songwriter has produced his first record with a label—and the first with his touring band, the Fieldnotes. They'll play the Castle Theatre on March 28. -
The theater and light opera company embarks on a first-time collaboration with the Music Connections Foundation to mount 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat' this summer at Heartland Community College -
Kevin Jones and Suzanne Montoya wrote about a collaboration with Rev. Brigitte Black and the Bloomington chapter of Not in Our Town implementing listening circles in 2020. Their chapter is part of an anthology edited by a former Ford County probation director.
