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Rural EMS agencies are closing. Ambulance response times are lengthening. One EMS coordinator says consolidation is better than no service at all. And a new rural food coalition tries to expand markets and selling seasons. Some McLean County residents who waited months to get the vaccine are changing their minds and accepting the jab. Vaccinations on the rise. Plus, Congressman Rodney Davis says we've had soldiers in South Korea and Germany for decades, why not Afghanistan?

A prominent African American Church in Bloomington Normal installs new leadership this weekend. Timothy Mark Harris shares his vision for social change through the legacy and continued strength of the 165 year old Mount Pisgah Baptist Church. Connect Transit doesn't have the bus drivers it needs. Service cuts are coming. Strolling amid Bloomington tombstones is an entertaining and educational pastime through the Mclean County Museum of History Cemetery walk. And a central Illinois man writes a book about the richness of life found through caregiving for a brother with disabilities.

Not for profit agencies have added autism services in recent years in Bloomington Normal. Now for profits are coming too. Hear about The Place for Children with Autism. McLean County COVID cases keep rising. The singer songwriter group Stone and Snow can't always write about things in the moment. The new album is We Were Made For These Times. And find out what the music of the Go-Gos and pre-Shakespeare poetry is like on stage together.

McLean County has added 67 new coronavirus patients in the past week—tying the weekly record—as public health officials reiterated their plea to wear face…

UPDATED 12:15 P.M. | McLean County’s active COVID-19 caseload continues to fall, though available bed space in Bloomington-Normal hospitals remains…

Turnout in McLean County (including Bloomington voters) reached only 21.2% in this midterm, nonpresidential year primary election. That’s the third straight decline in turnout in elections of this type.

About 900 McLean County residents who were set to receive their second COVID-19 vaccine dose on Friday will have to wait, while others hoping to become…

Young will primarily hear cases in Logan County, filling a vacancy left by Judge Bill Workman's retirement from the bench.

McLean County reported 12 COVID-related deaths in September. That’s the highest monthly death toll since February, when only a small fraction of the population was vaccinated.

Government officials in Bloomington, Normal and McLean County say they don't plan to require the COVID-19 vaccine for staff and they don't plan to ask if employees have received the shots.