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Businesses in Illinois can fully reopen starting Friday, but some plan to maintain strict mask enforcement.

WGLT The McLean County Board Executive Committee held its last of three public hearings Monday on establishing the number of County Board districts, McLean County would have to get voter approval to expand to 20 County Board districts this year, effectively killing a plan several Democrats and allies pushed during the county's redistricting hearings. After more than 40 people addressed the County Board Executive Committee during three public hearings over the last two weeks, McLean County Assistant State's Attorney Christopher Spanos clarified the County Board could not change to a one-board...

Best Investigative Report: Judith Valente, Ex-Con Priest PREVIOUS MURROW AWARDS For the first time in station history, WGLT was honored in 2015 with two national Edward R. Murrow awards for journalistic excellence in one year by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). WGLT had previously won three national Murrow awards for work in 2005, 2006, and 2008. WGLT News won the coveted News Series award for the group of investigative reports, Police and Race in the Twin Cities. That also took honors in the Investigative Reporting category. The series was honored earlier this year wi...

Pharmaceutical firms may have engaged in “bad faith” by failing to inform a judge overseeing a patent settlement in 2012 about an allegedly anticompetitive side deal, a federal judge said Thursday. SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — In a class action seeking billions of dollars from pharmaceutical firms accused of plotting to jack up the price of an essential diabetes drug, a federal judge said Thursday drug companies may have a hard time justifying the price increase to a jury. “I don’t think you’ll ever be able to explain to a jury $51 a pill when it was $5 before,” U.S. District Judge Will...

Bill Clark / Pool via AP Addiction and mental health treatment centers in Illinois will get $92 million through the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to address what advocates say was the worst public health crisis in the country before the pandemic. “We were witnessing skyrocketing races of suicide before COVID-19, but COVID-19 has made these epidemics worse,” U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday during a virtual news conference with mental health and addiction treatment experts. “These epidemics feed on isolation and despair and reduction in essential services.” Dr. Obari Cartman, left, ...