1 00:00:00,340 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: From the WGLT newsroom, I'm Courtney Conroy. An agency providing 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:08,010 Speaker 1: legal support to immigrants in Central and Southern Illinois is 3 00:00:08,010 --> 00:00:11,369 Speaker 1: grappling with the severe reduction of a sixty-year program from 4 00:00:11,369 --> 00:00:15,689 Speaker 1: the Department of Justice. The recognition and accreditation program allows 5 00:00:15,689 --> 00:00:18,649 Speaker 1: anyone to become a DOJ rep, providing legal advice to immigrant. 6 00:00:19,375 --> 00:00:22,655 Speaker 1: The immigration Project's legal director Daniel De Winter says it 7 00:00:22,655 --> 00:00:24,774 Speaker 1: will be harder for immigrants to get the legal help 8 00:00:24,774 --> 00:00:25,254 Speaker 1: they need. 9 00:00:25,344 --> 00:00:25,895 Speaker 2: It caused 10 00:00:25,895 --> 00:00:28,815 Speaker 2: quite a bit of panic in my office, and I'm 11 00:00:28,815 --> 00:00:31,655 Speaker 2: not sure how many clients know the difference between a 12 00:00:31,655 --> 00:00:34,915 Speaker 2: DOJ rep and a legal aid, like on the face 13 00:00:34,915 --> 00:00:38,814 Speaker 2: until they're engaged with us and understand the 14 00:00:38,814 --> 00:00:39,055 Speaker 2: process. 15 00:00:39,215 --> 00:00:42,354 Speaker 1: The immigration Project has 30 DOJ reps. 16 00:00:42,830 --> 00:00:46,310 Speaker 1: The Bloomington Normal Economic Development Council has named an interim 17 00:00:46,310 --> 00:00:49,869 Speaker 1: chief executive officer. Tyler Cravens will hold the position while 18 00:00:49,869 --> 00:00:52,709 Speaker 1: the council does a national search for someone to succeed 19 00:00:52,709 --> 00:00:56,349 Speaker 1: Patrick Hoben. Cravens has served as chief operating officer of 20 00:00:56,349 --> 00:00:59,459 Speaker 1: the McLean County Chamber of Commerce for the last 3 years. 21 00:00:59,700 --> 00:01:02,729 Speaker 1: Cravens will continue in a limited capacity with the chamber 22 00:01:02,869 --> 00:01:04,230 Speaker 1: through a temporary arrangement. 23 00:01:04,809 --> 00:01:08,018 Speaker 1: Eastview Christian Church plans to donate its community center south 24 00:01:08,019 --> 00:01:11,429 Speaker 1: of downtown Bloomington to Home Sweet Home Ministries this summer. 25 00:01:11,779 --> 00:01:14,220 Speaker 1: The center is across the street from Home Sweet Home 26 00:01:14,220 --> 00:01:18,139 Speaker 1: Shelter Village. Eastview's lead pastor, Brandon Grant, says it makes 27 00:01:18,139 --> 00:01:20,199 Speaker 1: sense for Home Sweet Home to take over the building 28 00:01:20,339 --> 00:01:21,779 Speaker 1: to help it expand its work for. 29 00:01:21,875 --> 00:01:24,394 Speaker 1: In the unhoused, I think it's best that we would 30 00:01:24,394 --> 00:01:27,235 Speaker 1: partner with Home Sweet Home in a significant way. They 31 00:01:27,235 --> 00:01:31,014 Speaker 1: do a great job of really walking alongside of and 32 00:01:31,294 --> 00:01:33,994 Speaker 1: moving towards rehabilitation of those that are in unhoused situations. 33 00:01:34,114 --> 00:01:37,714 Speaker 1: Home Sweet Homes CEO says the nonprofit is considering multiple 34 00:01:37,714 --> 00:01:39,055 Speaker 1: ideas to use the property. 35 00:01:39,690 --> 00:01:42,819 Speaker 1: And a new documentary set to release next week takes 36 00:01:42,819 --> 00:01:45,809 Speaker 1: a look at newly unveiled information in the unsolved murder 37 00:01:45,809 --> 00:01:49,419 Speaker 1: of Jennifer Lock Miller. The Illinois State University student was 38 00:01:49,419 --> 00:01:52,660 Speaker 1: murdered in 1993, a case that led to the wrongful 39 00:01:52,660 --> 00:01:54,620 Speaker 1: conviction of her ex-boyfriend Alan. 40 00:01:54,730 --> 00:01:58,290 Speaker 1: Beaman Beaman was sentenced to 50 years in prison and 41 00:01:58,290 --> 00:02:01,010 Speaker 1: served it until his conviction was overturned by the Illinois 42 00:02:01,010 --> 00:02:05,849 Speaker 1: Supreme Court in 2008. WGNTV will release the half-hour true 43 00:02:05,849 --> 00:02:08,570 Speaker 1: crime special on their app for free and later posted 44 00:02:08,570 --> 00:02:09,850 Speaker 1: to YouTube. I'm Courtney.