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McLean County has become the first government body to approve expanding an enterprise zone to enable Brandt Industries to get incentives for a planned…

McLean County is increasing its ransomware protection while facing sharp rises in insurance costs.County Board chairman John McIntyre said on Sound Ideas…

McLean County Animal Control has officially broken ground on a new facility after 31 years in its current building.

The incumbent and winner of the district three McLean County Board seat seemed to want to talk about the national races more than his own victory.George…

A shortage of correctional staffers prompted the county to begin sending inmates to the LaSalle County Jail in Ottawa. Sheriff Matt Lane says 30 correctional staffers have been hired since March.

It may not be an impossible dream, but a McLean County man is certainly dreaming a very difficult dream, restoring an old railroad sleeper car to become a business. And there's a new book on backyard prairies. Up to 50 percent of court cases have at least one side representing themselves. A new grant for courts in McLean and neighboring counties will help offer road maps to the courts for those without a lawyer. And, Amazon will build a distribution center near Pekin. Yes, it's hundreds of jobs, but the pay rate makes a difference.

The latest from the WGLT Newsroom, reporting daily from the McLean County Law and Justice Center and elsewhere as the end of cash bail finally arrives. The Pretrial Fairness Act provision of the SAFE-T Act criminal justice reform takes effect Monday.

McLean County voters could be asked this fall if they want to eliminate the elected auditor's office that oversees the county's bookkeeping. The County Board's executive committee on Monday will consider placing the request on the November ballot.