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Sustainability was the keyword at Wednesday's Bloomington Zoning Board of Appeals meeting where four petitioners applied for chicken coops.

The House of Representatives is set to debate this week a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget each year. It's part of the same mandate of this summer's debt ceiling law that more famously requires Congress to slash $1.2 trillion from the deficit or face automatic, across-the-board cuts.

The “Halloween” movies take place in fictional Haddonfield, Illinois. Clues sprinkled throughout the movies reveal that if Haddonfield really existed, it would be located near Pontiac right along Interstate 55. Other hints suggest it’s something of a doppelganger for Bloomington-Normal.

The Boy Scouts of America has been around for more than 110 years, and the Central Illinois W.D. Boyce council is celebrating its 50-year anniversary.For the next 18 months, this council will celebrate the longevity of scouting with both community-based and council-wide events.

At issue is whether a county can seize homeowners' residence for unpaid property taxes and sell the house at auction for less than the homeowners would get if they put their home on the market themselves.

Wildfires have spread rapidly in two parts of California. In Butte County, residents raced to evacuate their homes overnight. KQED's Jeremy Siegel reports on the latest update from fire officials.

In 2020, President Biden won six of the seven closely watched states. This year, President-elect Donald Trump won all seven — plus is on track to win a majority of the popular vote, according to AP.

The first national Women's History Week occurred in 1980. Seven years later, Congress passed a law designating March as Women's History Month.

The Senate approved a bill to add roughly $484 billion in new funds to bolster the already record-breaking coronavirus response legislation. Senators passed the measure by unanimous consent Tuesday.

The lawman says local taxpayers should not pay to house prisoners arrested for pot possession at the Sierra Blanca border checkpoint. "I'm not gonna do the federal government's job," he says.