Kevin Lower has announced he'll compete for an open seat, hoping to represent south Bloomington on the county board. Lower previously served on Bloomington City Council, and unsuccessfully ran for mayor in 2017.

A group of interfaith leaders and civic leaders joined Friday prayer at a Bloomington mosque to show solidarity and support following this week’s deadly shooting at San Diego’s Islamic Center.

Phase one, including the first 57 apartments, is expected to be completed by next summer. Justin Fern of Urban Equity Properties spoke to WGLT on details for the planned G.J. Lofts project.

A Morton farmer was applying pesticides on a farm near the Bethel Lutheran School, which was hosting an outdoor school event. A parent of one of the kids affected filed a compliant that the farmer did not take the proper precautions associated with high wind.

The Illinois legislature passed a bill requiring female CPR manikins for schools, with most Republicans voting against the bill. The bill now goes to the governor's desk to be signed into law.

Kim Holman-Short's long career in public housing, including 37 years at the Bloomington Housing Authority, is being honored by renaming an apartment complex south of Downtown Bloomington.

As part of NPR's Climate Solutions Week, you'll learn about efforts to make sustainability and recycling easier for college students in Illinois. Because one student’s trash is another’s treasure come the next semester.

Normal City Manager Pam Reece said the Federal Railroad Administration has assured the town it's OK with the delay.

The school district requested a change of venue to a federal court in Peoria. Angela Sutton claims administrators repeatedly ignored concerns about her transgender child being bullied at school.

A bill introduced in the Illinois legislature would allow teachers to challenge notices of remedy, actions that go against school policy but can be fixed. Opponents have raised concern that this could erase documentation of patterns of abuse by teachers.

The Unit 5 school board on Wednesday approved a roughly $180,000, three-year contract with ParentSquare to be the district’s universal communications platform.

“The fans stay excited, we stay excited and we keep making records," Phil Lewis from L.A. Guns told WGLT. They play alongside Cinderella's Tom Keifer on May 28 at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts.