Michele Steinbacher

The Normal Town Council voted unanimously Monday to move up by a year a project that will make Normal’s Carden Park more accessible to people with disabilities.

A Unit 5 administrator hired this year to focus on educational disparities told the school board this week the district’s Equity Action Plan — approved this fall — is moving forward on several fronts.

Of the nearly dozen public commenters at Monday night’s Bloomington City Council meeting, more than half criticized Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe’s handling of the vacant Ward 6 seat, unoccupied since Jenn Carrillo stepped down in August.

A group of emotional public commenters chastised the Normal Town Council during its regular meeting Monday — as well as during an outdoor rally preceding that meeting — about the town’s controversial removal of artwork honoring Jelani Day, an ISU graduate student whose death police continue to investigate.

After three months of debating how the city can best help flood victims repair their homes, a proposal to provide direct local aid narrowly failed, for now, at Monday's Bloomington City Council meeting.

The Unit 5 school board Wednesday night adopted a $212.3 million budget for fiscal 2021-2022, and discussed a report detailing a decade’s worth of the district’s budget trends.

On Monday night, the Normal Town Council unanimously approved a project to develop a 30-acre truck stop, convenience store and recreational vehicle (RV) park off of Interstate 55 in the town’s northwest corner.

Twin City Black leaders invited local police to a virtual town hall Thursday , to jump start a community conversation about yet another report showing central Illinois police stop Black motorists far more frequently than they stop white drivers.

Bloomington residents and business owners won’t face utility shutoffs for past-due bills — at least for the next few weeks, with the Bloomington City Council voting Monday night to reinstate a pandemic-related moratorium until Oct. 1.

The Unit 5 school board heard a report Wednesday night detailing how a new air-cleaning system installed in district buildings is being used as a pandemic mitigation strategy.