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About 2,200 people signed petitions to put a ballot question in front of voters that would change the Town of Normal’s form of representative government from its current at-large system to one that is district-based, organizers said.

NPR's Noel King talks to Robert Woodard, chairman of the Dare County Board of Commissioners, about people in North Carolina's Outer Banks bracing for Hurricane Dorian.

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Dave Pine, president of the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors, about the gun violence in California, including two related mass shootings in Half Moon Bay.

Gov. JB Pritzker visited Rivian’s new manufacturing plant in Normal on Tuesday and suggested that the company’s new R2 model could open up the market for EVs to middle-income buyers in the same way that Ford’s Model T did for regular cars a century ago.

Bloomington aldermen reiterated their preference Monday that the city’s library expand in its current location rather than move to a new home.The…

The coronavirus story is developing quickly in Illinois. Here are updates from WGLT's newsroom and our partners at Illinois Public Radio, NPR, and The…

The president of the Normal firefighters union says they will find a new beneficiary for proceeds from their gun raffle, after The Baby Fold raised concerns and distanced itself from the annual fundraiser.

The Peoria Public Schools Board has approved a Return to School plan for this fall after COVID-19 forced schools to move online in March.

Kevin Graham was born in Springfield and moved to Bloomington at age 3. He says he grew up “on both sides of the tracks," first in the Sunnyside projects…

National Geographic has recognized the Southern Ocean as the fifth official ocean. The cartographic update doesn't surprise researchers who study the importance of the waters surrounding Antarctica.