WGLT Newscasts - 4:04pm 6-20-2025

Published Jun 20, 2025, 9:06 PM

This newscast aired at 4:04pm on 6-20-2025 on WGLT.

From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Charlie Schlenker. Short term rental properties located in residential areas of the town of Normal will have to close down by the year 2030 to comply with the new ordinance. Some people have bought that kind of property as a business. City manager Pembre says the town acknowledged that by deferring enforcement of the ban in residential area.

We wanted to offer a property owner an opportunity for the return on investment. The delay might have been a wise move by the town. A judge has granted a temporary restraining order against an immediate ban on short-term rentals put in place by the Chicago suburb of Glen Ellen based on potential economic harm to owners. The oppressive heat coming to central Illinois this weekend also brings the risk of heat stress related injuries.

Doctor David Tennant with Carl Health says high temperatures become dangerous when bodies build up heat faster than they can offload by sweating. We're

out in the environment. We're doing something. We're exercising, and we just understand that this is too much. I need to take a break.

Tennant says.

The most dangerous for people who can't identify when it's time to cool down, particularly children and the elderly. One of the public servants being honored at Bloomington's Juneteenth celebration tomorrow says the residuals of slavery linger today and need to be confronted.

Kimberly Harris is a former Normal town council member. She says realities like the wealth gap and home ownership gap require an honest dialogue. We can celebrate it and commercialize it, but if we also don't accept it in teaching, educating, coming to grips with the realities of it, not shying away from it, then what we're doing is we're putting on a performance. Harris is one of 3 recipients of the Juneteenth Community Icon Award this year alongside former Bloomington Mayor Mboki Mulambwe and former NAACP leader John H. Elliott.

College football athletes set to play in a charity event have met some of the patients their game will benefit before the event. Kate Danko and his teammates took on a number of challenges along with patients from Schriner's Children's Hospital in Saint Louis and Chicago. It was called scoop and score. It's for people with disabled limbs, and basically had to put oven mitts on and unscrew a Gatorade cap and screw it back on as a little relay race. The game is at 11 tomorrow at Illinois Wesleyan. I'm Charlie.

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