WGLT Newscasts - 4:33pm 6-6-2025

Published Jun 6, 2025, 9:35 PM

This newscast aired at 4:33pm on 6-6-2025 on WGLT.

From the WGLT Newsroom, I'm Ben Howell. All of the tent encampment residents who are living off of Center Street in Normal have been relocated with the help of agencies like Home Sweet Home Ministries. Community outreach specialists for Home Sweet Home Ministry, Steve Tasso says the property owners went above and beyond. They didn't just immediately call the police and have people kicked out when they could have technically because they care, right? Now that the encampment has been dispersed, the Bloomington Normal Water Reclamation District is prepping the area for sewer construction.

McLean County government is set to consider spending $1.3 million to help fund the proposed shelter village in Bloomington. McLean County Behavioral Health coordination director Marita Landreth says Home Sweet Home Ministries is the only organization that applied for the grant to provide non-congregant housing.

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That's more specialized and allows some accommodations to help people help themselves and to get back to where they want to go is something that's, that I think is really exciting.

Home Sweet Home Ministries will present its proposal to the McLean County Board's Executive Committee on Monday.

An electric vehicle expert says the one big beautiful bill that passed the US House could significantly reduce demand for EVs if that version passed in the Senate too. It would eliminate the $7500 tax credit for new EV purchases at a $250 EV user fee and pull back spending on charging stations. Eleftheria Cantu is an assistant professor at UI who studied EV.

And any impact on the consumer demand, on the supply of vehicles or supply of infrastructure can have great ramifications on how fast we transition to electric vehicles. The impact on Rivian would be muted in the short term because its customers don't currently get the $7500 tax credit because their cost is above the $80,000 cap.

And El Paso's police chief was among those who took part in a new virtual dementia tour at Sugar Creek Alzheimer's Special Care Center in Normal. Joe Montanaro 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 open to first responders, caregivers and the community. I'm Ben.

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