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Illinois' new Invest in Kids program has helped pay tuition for some students to attend private schools in Bloomington and throughout the state this year,…

Fathers and father figures enjoyed a fun day of fishing at Miller Park, hosted by a McLean County coalition aimed at strengthening dads' relationships with their kids.

The paper, launched in 2020, is the only news agency operating in Ford County, just east of McLean County, and covering Paxton and Gibson City.

Waukegan says goodbye to a coal plant but must now contend with its industrial waste.

The architects of the Restore Heart of Illinois regional reopening plan say that, for all intents and purposes, their plan is now the governor's plan.

The McLean County Regional Planning Commission is looking for public input to help update a transportation plan that benefits vulnerable populations across central Illinois.

State Police say a box truck and semi-tractor trailer collided in the southbound lanes of Interstate 55 near McLean around 1:50 a.m. Tuesday.

The City of Bloomington is still looking for more applications for its new police advisory board.The deadline to apply to serve on the new Public Safety…

The Bloomington Normal tourism picture is getting better, but better is a relative term. Yet, major events and meetings are going back on fall calendars. Hear from the McLean County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Plus, crypto currencies and digital art based on blockchain technology are moving into the mainstream. They even had a Saturday night Live Skit, and they're also being developed in central Illinois. Digital artists make NFTs. Illinois Wesleyan University has won back to back national golf championships, yet two years apart.

A Bloomington attorney and Lincoln scholar has given a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to a Peoria Attorney, to the Lincoln Library and Presidential Museum in Springfield. It's a window into the mind of Lincoln as a politician and person in transition. Hear a reckoning of the costs of COVID in the things you can't do: lost health and lost opportunity from the pandemic in McLean County. Gardening is good for the body, mind and soul. Sarah Davis sure thought so. The WGLT Datebook takes you on the Glorious Garden Walk at the David Davis Mansion. Hear about the delicious and the dangerous poke sallet. It's tasty but sometimes toxic.