Bloomington Police

The Bloomington City Council on Monday received a presentation on how to make incentives more understandable and effective to developers.

The Bloomington Police Department said officers were called to the 1400 block of North Lee Street at 5:51 a.m. Tuesday, after several reports of shots fired in the area.

Newly released video shows Bloomington Police officers spent 10 minutes pleading with a 15-year-old to drop a gun before fatally shooting him when the confrontation escalated.

The Bloomington Police Department is set to join a statewide task force that looks to better track FOID card revocations. The agreement comes weeks after a triple-murder-suicide in Bloomington. In that case, the gunman had a revoked FOID card.

City staff say about 300 Bloomington residents have their FOID cards revoked every year, adding police have had a hard time keeping up with revoked and suspended cards.

Law enforcement and immigration advocates gathered Thursday at Bloomington Public Library to address concerns about misinformation and rapid policy changes to federal immigration law.

Law enforcement in McLean County say the process for revoking someone's FOID card and removing those gun owners from their weapons is at best imperfect and — at worst — it's on the honor system. Bloomington Police Chief Jamal Simington says the problem of illegal gun possession goes far beyond FOID revocations.

Bloomington Police dealt with two public violent incidents in February, and area law enforcement officials say those types of cases are part of what leads to recurring first responder trauma.

Investigators still don't know why Christopher Simmons of Bloomington allegedly shot and killed Chelsea Lusher, Armoni Bennett and Trina Hollings before turning the gun on himself.

A crowd of around 70 supporters of Cole L. M. Turner and his family marched to the Bloomington Police Department in protest of his death.