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The new director of the Bloomington Election Commission says those who want to combine the commission with the county clerk should do a study to prove cost savings and address the reasons the commission was created in the first place to remove partisanship from the process. The President of Eureka College says the pandemic has been a forcing mechanism for higher education change already under way. Bloomington Normal has had many distinguished writers and poets over the decades. Meet Harold Sinclair in the next episode of our series McHistory. And a new book from scholars at ISU looks at how school dress codes sexualize young girls.

District 87 is keeping its property tax rate nearly flat. The school board has approved a $48.5 million levy that projects significant growth in taxable land values.

Upgrades to ISU's aging arts complex have been discussed for decades. The project broke ground Tuesday, with $87 million in state funds helping to get it to the starting line.

New CDC guidance puts most of the U.S. at low risk of COVID-19. But what does that actually mean? Experts says the CDC metrics aren't necessarily the best way to gauge your individual risk.

The walkable downtown of the past isn't an anachronism, it's a future model for economic development.Ed McMahon is a senior fellow with the Urban Land…

A decline in business travel and increased low-fare competition from Chicago’s O’Hare airport were among the factors that drove down passenger traffic at…

Hurricane Katrina hit rural Hancock County, Miss., with stronger wind and higher water than anywhere else along the Gulf Coast. More than half of the county's 19,000 homes were destroyed. A year later, little of it is back.

A group of former Obama administration officials and election lawyers announced Tuesday they are attempting to reform the way the state draws district maps for the state legislature. They want to do this by passing a state constitutional amendment via a ballot initiative during the 2026 general election.

Street outreach is a proven way to help end homelessness and efforts are growing in McLean County, but providers say they are still inefficient — and something else needs to be done.

Millions of voters across Illinois are getting vote-by-mail applications. A new law signed by the governor this summer directs all election authorities...