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Several McLean County school districts planned to make masks optional this year, before Gov. JB Pritzker made them mandatory on Wednesday.

Hear about a resurgent Bloomington Normal Music Scene. It’s a comeback after a vibrant scene collapsed about 2001. Jon Norton reports on live music in the…

Some school districts in central Illinois may have school boards that don't agree with Gov. JB Pritzker's mask mandate for students Pre-K through 12. But the regional school superintendent for McLean, Logan, Dewitt, and Livingston counties said this week any superintendent that feels squeezed can lean on the state board of education for backup.

The last several weeks have involved a great deal of public turmoil involving a strained relationship between the County Health Department and its Board…

The ZBA adjourned Tuesday night with no decision. The board will meet again on Tuesday, Dec. 5, but will not take any further testimony. Permit applicant One Earth Energy will be allowed to offer rebuttal and anyone who provided testimony can give a closing statement.

The Town of Normal is ratcheting up its rhetoric on the shared sales tax agreement the town and City of Bloomington have with McLean County government. And the county is pushing back hard.

A lawsuit filed by six Unit 5 employees will be transferred to McLean County from Woodford County, a judge ruled on Thursday, in the first move in a dispute between the school district and staff over vaccine mandates.

Bloomington, Normal and McLean County governments expect to receive payments over the next 18 years to combat opioid abuse.

Three candidates have filed to run as Republicans for McLean County Coroner. Current Coroner Kathy Davis was appointed to fill a vacancy. Challenging her…

Five years ago this month, COVID-19 arrived in McLean County and around the country. Take a look back at some of WGLT's most striking images from the early days of COVID.