The Illinois Clean Jobs Coalition said data center operators need to be transparent about what the public gets out of the big installations, releasing polling data showing 70% of Illinois residents support tighter regulation of the data center industry embodied in the POWER Act.

Unit 5 was accepted for the News Literacy District Fellowship to provide $30,000 in grant funding over the next three years, beginning in the fall.

In a public unveiling, the university unveiled the memorial bench and posthumous degree in honor of Carol Rofstad. Her murder is still unsolved after over 50 years.

A committee of school board members and educators completed a multi-year process related to enrollment realignment on Thursday when it presented a final recommendation to the school board. That recommendation avoids two of the most controversial options the district considered.

The exemption rate for the estate tax of family farm operations was set at $4 million in 2013. The McLean County Farm Bureau said $6 million is a fair rate to account for inflation, but the Family Farm Preservation Act has struggled to make it through the Illinois legislature.

Democratic state Rep. Maura Hirschauer has introduced a bill aimed at reducing hesitation when providing CPR to women.

Normal Citizen of the Year Adam Nielsen is living with early onset Alzheimer's disease. He and his wife Dayna Brown are doing so publicly and intentionally, as support to others who may be going through the same thing and as part of an advocacy effort.

Carlock Elementary was initially proposed to close due to its enrollment that hovers around 100 students. The consulting firm Cropper GIS characterized that as “unsustainable.” Parents are relieved to hear Unit 5 plans to recommend school board members approve a plan to keep the school open and keep Glenn Elementary as-is.

Unit 5 Superintendent Kristen Weikle presented details of the proposed plan during a virtual meeting Thursday night.

AFSCME workers have been demonstrating outside Hovey Hall and at various points across campus where the university’s striking grounds, buildings and dining services workers would typically be on the job.

In his monthly report to the county's Justice Committee, Sheriff Matt Lane said his department has kept up with transfers to prison and mental health facilities. But the state still has a dire shortage of mental health beds for people in the criminal justice system.

Christina Harms is telling her story through the Apprentice Ambassador Program, a professional development initiative hosted by the Illinois Workforce Innovation Board’s Work-Based Learning and Apprenticeship Committee. The program trains a cohort of people to speak on the apprenticeship model as a college alternative and career development tool.