This newscast aired at 12:04pm on 6-6-2025 on WGLT.
From the WGLT Newsroom, I'm John Norton. More than 600 workers will lose their jobs as Champagne-based Health Alliance plans to cease operations by the end of the year. The news comes after Carl Health recently announced that Health Alliance will stop providing all types of coverage on December 31. The layoffs are scheduled to begin on July 8 and continue through October of next year. Carl Health president and CEO Jim Leonard has said Health Alliance faces a number of financial challenges, including inflation.
A central Illinois lawmaker is celebrating the passage of a bill to expand the Twin Cities' access to recycled wastewater. The bill will allow the Bloomington Normal Water Reclamation District to accept wastewater and sell treated wastewater to companies within a 50 mile radius. State Senator Dave Kaler says the measure will help power data centers in the region without depleting the supply of drinking water. There's no good reason at all for taking water out of the.
aquifer good clean drinking water and trying to use it just to cool down computers that are using it for data processing. Bill now heads to Governor JB Pritzker's desk for his signature. El Paso's police chief was among those who took part in a new virtual dementia tour. It was at Sugar Creek Alzheimer's Special Care Center in Norman. Joe Montoro says the tour was eye opening and helped him better understand the.
Challenges faced by those living with dementia.
My first thought was to try to start to organize things, but I think that's kind of part of what dementia does, you know, certain people want to organize things that don't need organized.
The digital simulation was also open to first responders, caregivers, and community. The tour is available at care facilities, private homes, and educational settings. Illinois Wesleyan University's nursing school has used the tour since 2017.
And investigating internet crimes against children could officially become a core mission of Illinois State Police. Capital News Illinois reports lawmakers unanimously approved a bill to add it to the ISP Criminal Division's other 13 core missions listed in law. It still needs approval from the governor. State Police Director Brendan Kelly supports the measure, partly to mostly cloudy skies through the day here in Bloomington normal with an expected high near 80 degrees. I'm John Norton, WG.