Bill Wheelhouse
Harvest Public Media ReporterHarvest Public Media’s reporter in Springfield, Ill., comes to Harvest with a background of covering state government and rural issues. For the past eight years, Bill was general manager of public radio station WUIS in Springfield. Prior to that, he spent a decade as State Capitol bureau chief for Illinois Public Radio. During his time in the Illinois statehouse Bill won several awards including Best Investigative Reporter from the Associated Press and Best Statehouse Beat Reporting from the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors in 2004. Bill also spent eight years as News Director at WIUM public radio in Macomb, Ill., and is a past president of the Illinois News Broadcasters Association.
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The advertisements will soon start flying through the airwaves, over the cable, and on your favorite social media channel. It is all in the battle for a… -
Flooding is beginning to feel like an annual event in some areas along the Illinois River. The governor and head of the Illinois Emergency Management… -
A lawmaker who portrays himself as an outsider found himself on the outside Tuesday. A group of protestors, meanwhile, made their voices heard as state...
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Colleges and universities in Illinois want their campuses to be open to students in the fall, after classes were forced online in March due to COVID-19.... -
A marijuana advocacy group is urging Illinois lawmakers to accept Governor Bruce Rauner's changes to a marijuana decriminalization plan. In his amendatory… -
A report from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources said damage from urban flooding (flooding on higher ground outside a flood plain) caused more… -
Last year, Illinois was one of a handful of states that lost population. More than 90,000 people moved elsewhere. It became a campaign issue for... -
The Illinois business community is lining up with farm groups in an effort to stave off some new federal water regulations. The Illinois Farm Bureau has… -
Consumers who buy their electricity from alternative energy providers have been seeing some price hikes lately. The Citizens Utility Board said the rate… -
A new study shows cancer rates are higher in downstate Illinois. Smoking might be the reason. A report from the Southern Illinois University School of…
