This newscast aired at 10:04am on 7-11-2025 on WGLT.
From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Colleen Holden. State Farm is facing criticism from Governor JB Pritzker over its plans to increase homeowners' insurance rates by 27%. Pritzker accuses State Farm of misleading regulators about why the hike is needed. He claims State Farm is shifting out of state costs onto homeowners here. The Bloomington-based company denies this, stating the real reasons are inflationary pressures on home replacement costs and more frequent.
weather events. Pritzker says he'll ask the Department of Insurance to take regulatory action against State Farm, and he wants lawmakers to enact a legislative solution during the upcoming veto session. Congressman Darren LaHood says cuts to the supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and work requirements for Medicaid eligibility are reasonable starts to paring down deficit spending. Our social safety net, it should be a trampoline and not a hammock.
LaH says the work requirements will help 4.5 million people in the US find jobs. Home Sweet Home Ministries broke ground yesterday on a $2.6 million shelter village to serve Bloomington Normal's unhoused. The bridge on Oakland Avenue near downtown Bloomington will have 48 small sleeping cabins and a central community building. Home Suite Home Executive director Matt Burgess says the bridge represents a paradigm shift in how to offer behavioral health services.
By bringing a
Comprehensive array of mental health, substance use disorder treatment, medical care, and other supportive services here on site, eliminating long standing barriers to accessing services
like these.
Bloomington-based Catalyst Construction led the design team and will manage construction. The roof of a Bloomington church collapsed Wednesday night. City officials say the building remains unstable. A city spokesperson said no injuries were reported when the roof of Reconcile Church at.
411 East Mulberry Street had caved. Church officials have not yet said what's next for the church or the building, and an East Peoria dentist has been identified as the man who died in a skydiving accident earlier this week in La Salle County. According to the La Salle County officials, the coroner's office was called to Skydive Chicago in Ottawa, Illinois on Monday for a reported death in a skydiving accident. He was identified as 48 year old Noel Liu of East Peoria. I'm