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In 2020, a McLean County judge sentenced Anthony Grampsas to 45 years in prison following the 2018 murder of a 20-year-old Bloomington man.

Bloomington Police say they’re hoping that witnesses step forward with new information that leads to an arrest in the unsolved killing of a 20-year-old last year.

DECATUR — Matthew A. Anderson Jr. now faces a sentencing range of 45 years to natural life in prison after a jury convicted him of murder Thursday morning. Anderson, 22, was found guilty of first-degree murder and the jury also found him guilty of personally discharging a firearm in the Jan. 4, 2019, death of 18-year-old Curtis T. Hairston. The victim was fatally wounded in a bathroom shootout in the former Long John Silver’s restaurant on West Eldorado Street. Anderson was also badly wounded. The finding that Anderson had used a firearm in the crime automatically adds 25 years to t...

The McLean County Law and Justice Center has been host to multiple high-profile felony murder cases in recent years. Criminal justice advocates say it's time to amend the controversial law. Others in the legal community say that likely won't happen soon. Staff / WGLT Advocates of criminal justice reform in the United States have had several achievements in the last couple of years. Both sides of the aisle embraced calls for lower prison populations. A growing social movement calls for rehabilitation over punishment. Supporters say part of that debate should be changing Illinois' felony murd...