Politics and Government

Here’s the story of a strange strike in which everybody went to work, and everybody got paid, and everybody went to jail.

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."

The challenges keep coming in reaction to a new state law that gun owners say violates their Second Amendment rights.

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.

Rising interest rates have blocked the hoped-for start of construction this spring on a flagship development project in Uptown Normal.

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.

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.

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.

The Illinois Democrat said it will take bipartisan cooperation to keep the federal government from defaulting.

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.