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August was the deadliest month in Chicago in 20 years. Father Mike Pfleger, ESPN's Lonnae O'Neal, Andre Hamlin, Carl Bell, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson talk about the reasons for the violence.

In many places, New Year's Eve celebrations were muted or canceled for the second straight year due to a surge of coronavirus infections, this time driven by the highly contagious omicron variant.

Homebuilders in Bloomington-Normal are playing catch up in meeting the growth of the last decade, the more recent expansion of the labor market, and projected future growth.

A bombing kills dozens on Pakistan's border with Afghanistan. Ukraine retakes a small village from Russia. Some 30,000 people are losing their jobs as trucking company Yellow shuts down.

That's a community-wide game Edgard Gouveia remembers from his boyhood in Brazil — and uses as a model in his efforts to heal the world through gameplay.

If you’ve recently moved to this area, you may have some questions about Downtown Bloomington and Uptown Normal. WGLT’s Welcome Home series is here to help.

Roughly 50 American voting jurisdictions have now moved to a ranked choice voting system, and it's shaping up to be one of the political subplots of 2024.

Unlike its Central American neighbors, Nicaragua hasn't waged a head-on military battle with the cartels. The country suffers less violence, but critics says it effectively tolerates trafficking.

Proposals for chemical plants to use "inherently safer" design practices have been blocked by industry executives and their allies in Congress, despite deadly accidents and the risk of a potential terrorist attack that could harm an entire community or city.

Ten years after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., NPR's Michel Martin talks to the city's new police chief. Troy Doyle has been on the job for a year.