Downtown Bloomington

Bloomington's city manager says the newly-passed massage business ordinance will do more than help shut down illicit businesses.

The Bloomington gallery's final day at its current location on the downtown square will be July 11.

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.

A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday evening downtown.

Fifteen colorful circus-theme sidewalk murals connect downtown to the Bloomington Public Library. A celebration is set for 10 a.m. Saturday, May 31, at the library.

A study done for the City of Bloomington has estimated the cost to dredge Lake Bloomington at more than $35 million.

Bloomington's downtown was named one of five new state-designated cultural districts by the Pritzker administration. That designation opens up millions of dollars in grant funding.

Artist Herb Eaton's 10-foot corn statue "Star-Crossed Pollinators" now stands on the southwest lawn of the McLean County Museum of History, commemorating the 25th anniversary of Corn on the Curb.

Imagine, if you will, how big a deal it would be if Taylor Swift gave a concert in Bloomington-Normal. That's the equivalent to the appearance of lyric tenor John McCormack on Nov. 24, 1924.