{"id":418976,"date":"2026-01-20T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418976\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T15:56:10","slug":"northern-lights-return-to-the-skies-across-central-illinois-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/418976\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Lights return to the skies across Central Illinois | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WAND) &#8211; Illinois is one of 24 states fully or partially above the aurora view line Monday night, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swpc.noaa.gov\/communities\/aurora-dashboard-experimental\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NOAA aurora forecast map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Viewers sent in photos from across the area\u00a0and surrounding communities, sharing their snapshots of the colorful spectacle.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to add to our gallery using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/sendit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WAND SendIt<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026. WANDTV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WAND) &#8211; Illinois is one of 24 states fully or partially above the aurora view line Monday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1075,192,5629,983,79,120173,120175,120174],"class_list":["post-418976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-community","tag-environment","tag-illinois","tag-local-news","tag-science","tag-wand","tag-wand-news","tag-wandtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}