WGLT Newscasts - 10:04am 6-20-2025

Published Jun 20, 2025, 3:06 PM

This newscast aired at 10:04am on 6-20-2025 on WGLT.

From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Courtney Conroy. Unit 5 school board has approved updates to the district's cell phone policy.

The rules require phones and devices to be put away unless a student is using it for educational purposes. Board president Alex Williams says the issue runs deeper than just the classroom.

So how can we support families to make sure that their students know what the appropriate usage of these devices are? The

new rules go into place in the fall. Elected officials in McLean County who've been on the receiving end of violent rhetoric.

are reflecting on their own safety following last weekend's lawmaker shootings in Minnesota. Corey Byrne is a county board member and Unit 5 teacher who represents Bloomington Normal's East Side, often on the receiving end of online harm. It is pretty much the standard response that there are going to be threats of arrest, deportation. I'm a 5th generation American, but deportation, uh, injury, death, uh, family members.

Families of my students firing. Burns says that we need to get back to being able to disagree and still look out for one another. Illinois State University's Horticulture Center will soon be home to an interactive art piece that celebrates native plants and practices. ISU art professor Ruth Burke created this using draft animals like oxen to create the one acre piece. The animals have had a very specific

role in shaping the land, thus shaping our economy, thus shaping the way that like we move around our county. A summer solstice celebration tonight called Sunset on the Longest Day invites community members to scatter native seeds on the grounds prepared by Burke's animals, and a group of Republican lawmakers have filed a lawsuit seeking to nullify a controversial bill that passed through the General Assembly.

In the final hours of the spring session, Capital News Illinois reports the bill would allow certain kinds of lawsuits to be filed against out of state corporations, even when the underlying claims and the parties involved have no connection to Illinois. GOP lawmakers say Democrats violated the Illinois Constitution when they rushed the bill through a so-called gut and replace amendment to another bill on the final night of the legislative session.

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