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Bloomington-Normal students and teachers got their first taste of their new reality Monday as schools began what will be at least a two-week shutdown…

An interactive map on Atlas Obscura explores alternate capital cities — not of countries, but products, events and states of mind. George Pendle explain the origins of the toilet paper capital, more.

Unit 5 leaders say the district's proposed budget has a $12.5 million structural deficit, but that’s about 20 percent, or $3.5 million, less than projected.

President Trump revoked a Biden-era executive order that affirmed the longstanding practice of including the total number of persons residing in each state in a census count used for election maps.

America is dotted with old oil wells that are no longer producing, but have never been plugged. In a prairie in Oklahoma, between bison and brush fires, a pipe sticking out from the ground is one tiny part of a big national problem.

Donald Trump’s endorsement could end up being a big factor in the bitter primary fight for reelection between Miller and Davis.

Republican state Rep. Dennis Tipsword, who represents parts of rural Bloomington-Normal in the 105th House District, will head to Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day on Monday.

One proposed constitutional amendment imposing a 3% tax on millionaires would yield $1,500 checks to property owners. Another would divvy up proceeds between schools and property tax relief. An early May deadline looms to get a plan before voters this fall.

Reverend Jesse Jackson Junior joined a couple hundred people in a peaceful drive through demonstration and march in honor of ISU graduate student Jelani Day in Peru, Illinois. Day's death has been ruled by drowning but the chants were about justice for Jelani and no justice no peace. Unit 5 schools have been getting ready for today's federal approval of the Coronavirus vaccine for kids ages five to eleven. They'll offer vaccination clinics. And Superintendent Kristen Weikle says booster shot opportunities for staff are coming too. A Bloomington Normal high school student has received a national award for his work to help others. Meet Druhv Rebba. And Normal City Manager Pam Reece drops by.

The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's report shows.