Jeff Jurgens, a longtime employee of the city who's been deputy city manager just more than a year, is set to become city manager once Tim Gleason leaves early next month.

Connect Transit General Manager David Braun said a federal study already has approved the parking deck site and plans are underway to review several submitted proposals for construction.

The contract calls for a 15% raise spanning four years, including a 6% hike in 2024, a 5% raise in April 2025 and then 2% raises in 2026 and 2027.

Weeks after two high-profile resignations at the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday appointed the first-ever executive director to help lead the beleaguered agency.

Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe has been informally telling friends and people who have asked him that he will seek a second, four-year term for a couple months. It's now official.

County Clerk Kathy Michael apologized for the treatment of Tres'von Milligan-Evans, saying election judges make mistakes but that the ballot was ultimately counted. The county board also formally passed some procedural rule changes.

Governor calling for sweeping changes in regulation; report shows state facing skyrocketing costs.

"We have to sustain the commitment — and, frankly, the accountability," Ward 7 council member Mollie Ward said about Bloomington's pledge to prioritize accessibility as work on revitalizing downtown Bloomington via the adopted streetscape plan unfolds.

Bloomington City Council members voted unanimously Monday to approve the streetscape plan for improving downtown Bloomington that has been in the works for the better part of two years.

County Board Chair Catherine Metsker said she thinks the county's behavioral health advisory group lacks structure, and she’s tackling the issue head-on. Her self-identified “ambitious goal” is to formalize policies and procedures for the Behavioral Health Coordinating Council — for the first time in its history — and she wants to get it done in under six months.