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McLean County Board Chairman Matt Sorensen faces a federal fraud indictment. The document alleges Sorensen conspired with an outside consulting firm when…

Tom Ashbrook, an award-winning journalist who has covered stories all over the world, came home last week to central Illinois. Based in Boston at WBUR,…

Humor is a potent professor when it comes to diversity. That's according to an advocate and speaker, who says the hit animated TV comedies South Park and…

A recent study of Illinois State University shows the number of students who voted in the 2018 midterm election rose 13% from 2014.Harriett Steinbach,…

On today's episode, The group 'Yes for Unit Five' explains its strategy head of a second referendum, freshman U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen discusses his goal on the House Agriculture Committee, plus a new report outlines how much Illinois taxpayers have to shell out to cover the pensions of admitted political wrongdoers.

New housing starts in Normal are mostly happening near the edges of town. Plus, they'll be singing 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame' at the Corn Crib in Normal this summer. Central Illinois scholars and artists consider the pros and cons of crypto-currency. Finally, the cost of child care is growing, but workers in that sector aren't seeing much of that.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Tuesday, June 14. Eric Stock reports from a press conference announcing a major expansion to the Ferrero chocolate factor in Bloomington. Plus, WBEZ's Patrick Smith looks in DCFS housing children in jail, sometimes for weeks or months at a time. The agency says that's because it can't find anywhere else to place them.

On today's episode, a look at all the outside money that's been poured into the Illinois House race between Sharon Chung and Scott Preston, the city manager in Normal discusses the town's tax plans for next year due to higher property tax assessments, and Illinois Wesleyan hosts an exhibition that shows how soccer has blended cultures in Bloomington-Normal.

The president of the Illinois chapter of the NAACP says that more than 50 years after the federal Fair Housing Act was enacted, African-Americans still…

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