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The Black Lives Matter movement has been seen widely as an African American movement focused on eradicating police brutality. But that's not the whole…

The state of Illinois has awarded $4.5 million to fund racial healing efforts across the state and to help people of color who have been…

Resident of a northern county are the first in the state to vote against refugee resettlements. Misinformation led many to think that hundreds of Syrian refugees would be coming.

State Senate seats like the one Bill Brady just quit, don't open up that often. Hear from the Republican County Party Chair who controls the largest chunk…

An advocate for sexual assault victims said the latest social media movement is changing the conversation about abuse survivors.#WhyIDidntReport was…

The McLean County Museum of History and Not In Our Town partnered to create an interactive website based on their long-running Social Justice Walking Tour. The D-I-Y tour includes locations pivotal to various social movements related to gender and racial equality, immigrant rights and organized labor.

In one of the most segregated U.S. regions — New York's suburbs — voters of color are waging an unprecedented redistricting fight with an emerging tool for protecting voting rights at the local level.

Less than 10% of hospital beds and ICU beds are available in Bloomington-Normal amid a second wave of COVID-19 patients and with a risky holiday week…

State Senate seats like the one Bill Brady just quit don't open up that often. Hear from the Republican County Party Chair who controls the largest chunk…

Nursing homes suffered financially during the pandemic as families avoided putting residents there. Perhaps a quarter of long term care facilities won't make it through the next year. The McLean County Nursing Home might have taken less of a hit than most. Bloomington Normal landlords say a lot of tenants haven't paid rent in a long time. They say they don't want to evict anyone, but will do what they have to. And the Mayor of Normal sayeth the state legislature giveth and the state legislature taketh away. A transfer of firefighters and police from tier two to tier one pension plans wipes out previous efficiencies.