The town earned more than $2 million from the Illinois Department of Transportation to replace a culvert crossing Sugar Creek along Vernon Avenue. Normal previously looked to extend the current structure's life.

Winter weather complicates an already scarce parking situation in Downtown Bloomington. The Market Street parking deck has closed. And the Front and Center block has yet to finish demolition and become surface parking. That’s likely to become available sometime next spring.

The Bloomington City Council approved the levy amount for the current fiscal year, as well as a nearly $7 million levy amount for the Bloomington Public Library.

McLean County Board Chair Elizabeth Johnston said there's significant movement on mental health program spending in the county. That comes from sales tax money shared with the county by Bloomington and Normal.

OSF, a Catholic health care system based in Peoria, said in a statement it was “saddened” to hear the governor signed the bill into law. Health care providers are not required to participate.

The new law, which takes effect next September, opens the door for people 18 or older with a terminal diagnosis to be prescribed a fatal drug.

Gov. JB Pritzker suggested Illinois’ threat to retaliate helped defeat the measure across the border — and he didn’t rule out an effort to expand his state’s 14-3 Democratic edge.

SunVest’s plan calls for a solar energy generating site, as well as a battery energy storage system [BESS], at 2105 W. Oakland Avenue in Bloomington Township, and the area immediately east of Oakland Avenue, about a third of a mile north of Six Points Road.

The suggestion comes after a four-month delay in ruling on the City of Bloomington's police accountability panel's first complaint in two years.

Democrat Montez Soliz of Rockford posted on social media that he has been removed from the ballot in the 17th Congressional District race following an objection to his petitions. That district includes parts of Bloomington-Normal and Greater Peoria.