WGLT Newscasts - 3:33pm 6-10-2025

Published Jun 10, 2025, 8:35 PM

This newscast aired at 3:33pm on 6-10-2025 on WGLT.

From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Ben Howell. A new study of traffic data shows police at Illinois State University and other colleges in the state stop black drivers on campus at a higher rate than whites. ISU police chief Aaron Woodruff says it's possible the majority of drivers officers pull over are not students, and many don't live here. He says that skews the data.

When

you consider

College Avenue and you consider Main Street running right through the core of our campus and the other outlier streets. I mean, we have over 50,000 vehicles a day that are passing through our campus. Woodruff

says it's possible officers have implicit bias in deciding who they stop. He says the department looks at traffic stop data and body cam footage for each officer to look for trends.

A central Illinois lawmaker led passage of a bill to help veterans access affordable housing. The bill is a response to the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act. It requires newly built homes to have an electricity charging capacity. Republican state senator Sally Turner, who represents parts of Bloomington Normal, says that prevented the Central Illinois Veterans Commission from building tiny homes for veterans. That provides help from the goofy CA bill that passed that these um.

Veterans that were on the verge of homelessness, if we provided them a tiny home or a small home, but they didn't have to have the electric hookup for their electric car that they couldn't afford. The bill awaits Governor JB Pritzker's signature. Retired banker Rob Fazzini championed some of Bloomington Normal's biggest and best ideas, named a 2025 McLean County history maker, Fazzini says his failures are just as important. The then Bloomington City council member pushed to change the council to a modified ward system. The 2014 referendum failed. And I feel good.

Because I saw democracy.

In action, Fazzini says he still believes in the idea and hopes he's around to see it happen. And a recent Illinois State University graduate has been selected as one of the recipients of the Paul Simon Democracy Prize. Ben Munsey plans to use the money on a voter registration drive for ISU students. I really wanted to just focus on getting students registered.

Um, in town, rather than registering them for a certain cause or, you know, persuade them to vote one party or another. Muncy's project focuses on registering students to vote where they live instead of where they go for the summer. I'm Ben Howell.

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