Dan Brady

You should not expect any big transformational project to be straightforward. That's a takeaway from Part 2 of our series "Hard Things" about the heavy lifts and big dream efforts our society and community achieve.

The mayor thinks there is a need for more regulation of massage businesses to prevent sex trafficking, and agrees the city council did the right thing in postponing consideration of an ordinance to do that.

The Carle BroMenn Service Auxiliary works to improve the hospital experience for staff, patients and visitors.

New and returning city council members were sworn in Thursday as Dan Brady officially becomes mayor of Bloomington.

Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe thinks it's worth paying the redeveloper of the downtown State Farm building a bundle over the next two-plus decades to get the project completed.

Dan Brady says the city faces several big challenges as he prepares to take the mayor's office next month: public safety, water problems and what he calls a pending storm — the city's financial crunch.

According to unofficial results on Tuesday, Dan Brady [48%] won decisively over city council member Cody Hendricks [33%] and mayor Mboka Mwilambwe [19%].

This is Part 3 of a series of stories about the mayoral election in Bloomington. Election Day is April 1.

The Bloomington-Normal branch of the NAACP held an election forum on Saturday that included the candidates for the municipal election on April 1, as well as information on the proposed countywide school sales tax referendum.

Whoever takes Bloomington's top job will still have to contend with the issues of a housing shortage and an uptick in the number of unhoused people in the city — though aid to both issues is currently in the works.