Eric Stock is a reporter at WVIK, Quad Cities NPR. He covers a diverse range of topics including sports, health and wellness, climate change, and regional interest, with a focus on issues pertinent to Illinois such as crime, social issues, and unemployment. Eric's work has been featured in numerous outlets including WSIU Public Broadcasting, NPR Illinois, and Tri States Public Radio.
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Eric Stock specializes in local news, particularly government announcements and evolving stories related to politics, crime, and infrastructure. He covers topics such as weather, job growth, retirement, crime, infrastructure projects and political developments.
If you have insights or breaking news related to local government decisions in Illinois or updates on ongoing criminal investigations within the Bloomington-Normal area that align with his coverage themes and attributes then he may be interested in your pitch. Additionally if you can provide expert commentary on legal policy regulations impacting these areas it would also likely pique his interest.
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By: Paul J. Aguilar, Eric Stock
Bloomington-Normal has seen an increase in homegrown musical acts in recent years, yet the number of performance spaces in the community keeps dropping. A live music venue that opened to great fanfare in downtown Bloomington in 2018 will be live one last time this weekend.
Bloomberg News reports Rivian and the UAW have a confidential agreement for the company to take a neutral position on efforts to bring union representation to its plant in Normal.
By: Eric Stock
Former President Jimmy Carter poses for a portrait during the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007.
WGLT took the pulse of people in Bloomington-Normal about what they want to see — and do — in 2025.
By: Eric Stock
Illinois Wesleyan University has named Jared Williamson, the head coach at Division II Roosevelt University in Chicago, its new head football coach.
By: Eric Stock
Congressman Eric Sorensen, right, talks with Denny Van Daele as he joins Rock Island County farmers and Illinois Farm Bureau leaders at a family farm in Taylor Ridge, Ill., Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
In visit to Normal, Pritzker pledges to help Rivian and other EV makers under Trump
By: Eric Stock
Plans for the new plant outside Atlanta had stalled before the federal government provided the help following an agreement that company officials say was over two years in the making.
By: Cesar Toscano, Eric Stock
Work continues near the presidential reviewing stand on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Washington, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
By: Eric Stock
Playing in the Major Leagues is a dream many kids have but few ever realize. Only 1 in 200 high school baseball players even get a minor league contract or get drafted by a Major League team.
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