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As expected, the Bloomington City Council Monday night approved Deputy City Manager Jeff Jurgens as Tim Gleason's replacement. Billy Tyus, the other deputy city manager, did not seek the position and will remain in his current role.
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Echoing a familiar refrain in the Twin Cities, outgoing Bloomington Housing Authority Executive Director Jeremy Hayes says any additional rental housing would help the community's lowest income renters.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Governor calling for sweeping changes in regulation; report shows state facing skyrocketing costs.
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"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.
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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.
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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.
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McLean County State's Attorney Erika Reynolds said the Pretrial Fairness Act [PFA], which took effect last September as part of a sweeping criminal justice reform law, takes away too much discretion from prosecutors and judges to decide which defendants should remain in custody while awaiting trial.
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A seventh attempt to update the Dual Credit Quality Act has cleared an Illinois House committee, extending the deadline to successfully bring it to the full House. Strong opposition from community college faculty, including both faculty unions at Heartland Community College, curbed a vote last week.