This newscast aired at 4:33pm on 6-20-2025 on WGLT.
From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Charlie Schlenker. Today marks the first official day of summer, and extreme heat and humidity are expected to sweep through central Illinois. The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory beginning tomorrow at noon and lasting till Tuesday evening. A heat index of over 100 degrees means the risk of heat-related illnesses. Carl Health doctor David Tennant says.
Many symptoms and indicators of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, but cerebral dysfunction is the surest sign of an emergency. What that means is confusion, lightheaded, dizziness. Lord knows if they have a seizure, says if someone showing these symptoms doesn't improve quickly after moving out of the heat and cooling down, they should go to the emergency room or call 911.
A town of normal says ending neighborhood disruptions is not the only reason for the just enacted ban on short-term rental properties in residential areas.
City manager Pam Rees says part of the rationale for the ban is a desire to address the housing shortage in the community and convert those short-term rentals into long-term residences.
The average price for the period we looked at 2019 through 2024 is about $170,000. That tends to fall in the area that we keep referring to as missing middle, the kind of.
Homes where people maybe can afford to buy maybe a first time home buyer.
49 short term rental properties will have to close down within 5 years. The delay is supposed to allow owners time to recoup their investments. Former Normal town council member Kimberly Harris says it's very meaningful for her to be dubbed one of this year's Juneteenth Community icon award winners.
Harris left the council in April after an unsuccessful run for mayor. Now she is being honored alongside former Bloomington Mayor Mboka Mulambwe and the late local NAACP leader John H. Elliott. But it does put me in a position to say I have to keep going. I can't stop. It does inspire me to do more. Harris and the others will be honored tomorrow during Bloomington's Juneteenth celebration at Miller Park from 11:30 to 5. I'm Charlie Schling.