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The Town of Normal plans to retool a proposed ordinance regulating so-called pop-up parties and other large gatherings.
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Privacy and cybersecurity experts tell Bloomington-Normal residents they need to worry more about containing their information.
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Illinois has been historically strong in immigration. For decades, its numbers were right up there with the four border states near Mexico. That has ebbed in recent years, starting with the overall decline following the Great Recession and then during the Trump administration that imposed additional restrictions.
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Black drivers in Bloomington were four times more likely to be pulled over by police than white drivers last year. That's an improvement over the last two years, but still more than double the state average.
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A noted central Illinois jurist has taken aim at the criminal justice system, some rulings by the current Supreme Court, and the negative effect on the nation from the oft-recurring use of fear to shape political ends in the U.S.
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Child welfare experts acknowledge that meaningful reform often follows the chaos of dysfunction and years of litigation. Here's how other states and cities have done it.
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An already-rescheduled meeting of Bloomington's Public Safety and Community Relations Board has been postponed again after the group didn't have enough members present for a quorum.
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The Bloomington City Council voted 6-2 Monday night to postpone a vote on whether to install controversial police surveillance cameras, capable of automatically reading vehicle license plates.
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The racial disparity in traffic and pedestrian stops in Bloomington-Normal grew wider last year during the pandemic. Bloomington Police pulled over Black motorists at six times the rate of white drivers last year. Police in Normal were more than four times more likely to pull over a Black driver than a while motorist.
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A performance audit of the Department of Children and Family Services released by the state auditor general this month found substandard practices for…