Bloomington-Normal

At the Women to Women Giving Circle affordable housing forum, the consensus was that the community wants and needs affordable housing. But getting it isn't simple.

The five-page report examines the status of affordable housing available via the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program, ultimately calling it "imperative that local leaders and stakeholders preserve and maintain LIHTC units to sustain housing for McLean County’s most marginalized residents."

Bloomington-Normal's Sister Cities committee has found other ways to connect with its colleagues in Vladimir, Russia and Canterbury, England since exchange trips have stopped.

A student foreign exchange program for Bloomington-Normal has returned after a delay that began with the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers hope the program can grow to where it was decades ago.

Bloomington-Normal's unemployment rate held steady last month, as the area added 1,400 jobs since last April.

WGLT spoke with three local gamers and enthusiasts to find out why they like video games, and what the gaming scene is like in Bloomington-Normal.

EatLocalBN.com compiles more than 400 restaurants in McLean County into easy-to-sort lists. They can be filtered by everything from location, price, and the type of food.

Eleven new restaurants have opened or are in the process of opening in Bloomington-Normal.

A Unit 5 administrator hired this year to focus on educational disparities told the school board this week the district’s Equity Action Plan — approved this fall — is moving forward on several fronts.

Of the nearly dozen public commenters at Monday night’s Bloomington City Council meeting, more than half criticized Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe’s handling of the vacant Ward 6 seat, unoccupied since Jenn Carrillo stepped down in August.