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A federal ruling restoring AmeriCorps grant funding in states that sued over the Trump administration's dismantling of the program may help keep important legal assistance available in McLean County.

West Nile season has arrived in McLean County.McLean County Health Department Senior Sanitarian Angie Crawford says a mosquito pool east of Bloomington…

A solution to the long wait times and registration issues experienced by voters at Illinois State University's Bone Student Center is still in progress.…

Two candidates for Unit 5 school board will be on the ballot this spring after an electoral board on Tuesday struck down objections to their paperwork.

Legal marijuana, teen vaping and rural HIV are just a few of the key issues McLean County's new health department administrator faces as she takes over a…

A new history of McLean County is coming. It's the first such comprehensive book in more than a hundred years. And it's the first to situate central Illinois residents amid broader global and national moments (other than the civil war). The history of Mclean County is more than just Abe Lincoln, Beer Nuts, and State Farm. There's this massacre of native Americans too which happened in 1730 when two French fur trading companies got into a competition and used different native tribes as proxies. Plus Historian Greg Koos chronicles labor, suffrage, and immigration in his new book Freedom, Land, And Community: a History of McLean County 1730-1900.

The McLean County state’s attorney and sheriff said it’s not so easy to say how they will enforce executive orders from Gov. JB Pritzker.A joint statement…

The county is looking to save money and avoid a last-minute rush under the new system that will allow voters to track their ballot's progress online, not unlike packages.

A new disclosure filed by the McLean County Republican Party failed to report the transfer of $28,000 to former Normal mayoral candidate Kathleen Lorenz – the same money that sparked a complaint against her with the State Board of Elections.

The rapid rise in COVID-19 cases in McLean County before Thanksgiving is now tracking through to a rise in deaths among older residents.The pandemic death…