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U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood, who represents parts of Bloomington-Normal, said he is not worried about the far-right members of his conference who withheld their votes until they received several concessions.
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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth said she wants any police reforms to include a required independent review of police-involved shootings.
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Here’s the story of a strange strike in which everybody went to work, and everybody got paid, and everybody went to jail.
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Curt Richardson of Normal found out as an adult that a fertility doctor had defrauded his parents decades earlier. Now, he's working to pass laws to "take some of that power back for victims."
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The challenges keep coming in reaction to a new state law that gun owners say violates their Second Amendment rights.
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McLean County circuit court judge Mark Fellheimer on Wednesday dismissed a legal action filed against Normal Town Clerk Angie Huonker in an effort to get some Normal residents on the April ballot.
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Rising interest rates have blocked the hoped-for start of construction this spring on a flagship development project in Uptown Normal.
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Town of Normal Finance Director Andrew Huhn said during a daylong budget workshop for the town council that a lot of the increase will be funded by projected double-digit revenue growth, mainly in sales and income tax receipts.
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Henson Disposal’s proposal to build a waste transfer station south of the city advanced Monday, with the Bloomington City Council approving a preliminary plan, and agreeing to extend sewer and water mains to the property.
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Republican state Rep. Dan Caulkins says he's collecting names from gun owners and firearms dealers who want to challenge the ban. A judge last week issued a temporary restraining order, but that only applied to about 860 plaintiffs in the case.
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The Illinois Democrat said it will take bipartisan cooperation to keep the federal government from defaulting.
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During Tuesday's non-voting meeting, the Bloomington City Council and Mayor Mwilambwe were presented with the city’s Americans with Disabilities Act Transition Plan as well as the Bloomington Police Department’s ideas for using a $500,000 violence prevention grant.