Maggie Miley’s plans to construct its new outdoor patio adjacent to the east of its current building at 126 E. Beaufort St. It’s currently a vacant lot that was previously used for parking and outdoor dining during the pandemic.

Golden Ticket Cinemas Ale House Bloomington plans to open in summer 2025 at 415 Detroit Drive, near Towanda Barnes Road and the Central Illinois Regional Airport. That’s the former home of New Vision Theatres (aka Ovation Cinema Grill), which closed in 2020.

Leaders at the electric automaker Rivian said Tuesday they’ve recorded their second-straight profitable quarter to start 2025, even as President Trump’s tariffs present “significant uncertainty” and will raise production costs by several thousand dollars per vehicle.

Rivian will get $16 million in state incentives plus more local tax breaks to help build a new supplier park just west of the electric automaker’s manufacturing plant in Normal, officials said Monday. The project is expected to fortify Rivian’s supply chain and create “hundreds of new jobs” once suppliers move in.

One of the leading Bloomington-Normal auto dealers says it's difficult to say how the tariffs will impact vehicle prices. He's already seen some customers move up their purchases in hopes of avoiding sticker shock.

A Democratic congressman from the Chicago area brought his concerns about President Trump’s tariffs to a farm just south of Bloomington on Thursday, accusing the administration of sowing “chaos and uncertainty” with its confrontational approach to trade policy.

After nearly 16 years in business, Neighborhood Thrift in downtown Bloomington is closing its doors.

The owner of the former State Farm building in downtown Bloomington is moving ahead with a $68 million redevelopment, including a renovation of the building into 183 residential units, plus ground-floor retail and a destination restaurant on the 13th floor.

An agriculture executive in Bloomington says tariffs are creating a lot of uncertainty heading into a new planting season.

A plan to build over 250 apartment units and townhomes near Shelbourne Drive and Beech Street in the heart of Normal has been revived, this time with changes designed to make the development more palatable to neighbors.