WGLT Newscasts - 12:04pm 6-23-2025

Published Jun 23, 2025, 5:06 PM

This newscast aired at 12:04pm on 6-23-2025 on WGLT.

From the WGLT Newsroom, I'm John Norton. Home Sweet Home Ministries will pay $250,000 to take over the site of the proposed shelter village called The Bridge. Connect Transit has agreed to the sale price. The vacant lot south of downtown Bloomington was once the transit agency's headquarters. Home Sweet Home is getting about $1.3 million in sales tax revenue to build nearly 50 small sleeping cabins for the unhoused. That covers about half the cost.

Illinois Republicans have been largely supportive of the decision to attack Iran directly. This comes a week after some GOP lawmakers and right-wing pundits argued against US involvement.

Congressman Darren LaHood represents parts of Bloomington normal. He posted a social media, Under no circumstances can Iran be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon. Democratic Congressman Eric Sorensen also represents the Twin Cities and said the attacks circumvented Congress. Illinois's two Democratic US senators, Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth, both criticized the move. Duckworth called the attack illegal and accused the Trump administration of putting American troops and citizens at risk of retaliation.

A new plan to regulate massage businesses in the city of Bloomington is back before the city council tonight, but this time without annual licensing fees. City staff removed the proposed yearly $250 fee after massage parlor owners pushed back and complained they weren't consulted. City staff proposed the new regulations as a way to prevent sex trafficking. The fee was to help cover the city's costs to investigate these businesses.

And immigration rights advocates in Illinois are anxiously awaiting Governor Pritzker to decide whether he will sign the bill aimed at protecting the rights of immigrant K through 12 students who are in the country without legal authorization. Capital News Illinois reports that the bill passed the General Assembly in the final days of the session.

It would prohibit schools from denying any student the right to receive a free public K-12 education based on their actual or perceived immigration status. It would also prohibit school officials from disclosing or threatening to disclose information about a student's immigration status. A heat advisory continues through Thursday night. Today's high near 95. I'm John Norton, WGLTs.

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