This newscast aired at 7:04am on 6-25-2025 on WGLT.
From the WTLT newsroom, I'm John Norton. Authorities say they've arrested a 19 year old from Chicago in connection with the April shooting at ISU's Bone Student Center. ISU police say they got help from the US Marshals to arrest Amir Thomas in Chicago. Thomas is accused of shooting another person outside a sorority event at the Bone. The victim was injured but survived. Thomas faces attempted murder and weapons charges. Neither Thomas or the victim were ISU students.
Governor JB Pritzker expected to announce he will run for re-election as IPR's Alex Degman reports.
Sources close to the governor's campaign confirmed that invitations are circulating for political events in Chicago and Springfield on Thursday. The invitations are light on specifics, but we are told that the governor will announce he's seeking a third term. It's unclear who will run alongside him. His current lieutenant governor Julian Stratton, is running for US Senate. A spokesperson for the Pritzker campaign would not confirm any details. Illinois governors are not.
Limited. The state's longest serving was Republican Jim Thompson, whose four terms ran from 1977 to 1991. Britzker has also widely been considered a 2028 presidential contender. I'm Alex Degman.
WGLT and more than two dozen other NPR stations have joined a newly filed friend of the court brief in the lawsuit to block the Trump administration's executive order to defund public media. WGLT is the only media outlet affiliated with a four-year public university that joined in the court filing.
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press coordinated the filing. It argues defunding NPR and blocking stations from buying NPR programming with funding approved by Congress would violate the First Amendment and constitutional separation of powers, and a bench on the ISU campus will honor a student whose murder a half century ago remains unsolved. Nicole Roach learned about Carol Rothstad's story while a student at ISU herself. She helped organize a successful $4500 fundraiser to keep her memory alive.
Going to be 50 years since her passing in December and so while it's so long for us, you know, I talk to her sorority sisters all the time and they feel like it was just yesterday. Rothstead was killed in an attack outside her off campus sorority house in December 1975. I'm John Norton.