Connect Transit

The City of Bloomington has announced two forums have been scheduled to collect public input on a proposed cabin village to serve the unhoused. The forums are scheduled for 3 p.m. Friday, May 2 and 7 p.m. Monday, May 5 at the Bloomington Public Library Community Room 1.

The City of Bloomington also needs to approve the change that could fill a void left by Show Bus services that McLean County elected not to continue.

The transit board heard an update Tuesday on plans to raze the aging Market Street Garage and create a block-wide space for public bus transfers, topped with a two-level parking deck.

Home Sweet Home Ministries wants to build a shelter village — tiny sleeping cabins surrounding a community building — on a site near the nonprofit’s Bloomington facility.

28 Bloomington-Normal leaders head to Washington, D.C., this week, hoping to secure up to $22.75 million for four area infrastructure projects.

A former dispatch supervisor claims she was fired and discriminated against for a medical disability resulting from pregnancy.

Normal City Manager Pam Reece said the town will keep a watchful eye on the spring legislative session in Springfield.

Bloomington's mayor has a concern about Connect Transit taking on rural transportation in McLean County after the county ended its agreement with Show Bus, saying he doesn't want the new initiative to detract from existing services.

McLean County is dropping Show Bus for rural public transportation and directing its grant funding to the service that operates public busing in Bloomington-Normal.

A Bloomington business owner said Monday the downtown post office will move into a portion of his building in the 300 block of Main Street downtown.