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Carl Teichman, a longtime fixture at Illinois Wesleyan University, is moving to a new role with the Bloomington-Normal Economic Development Council.
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A bill moving through the state legislature to make the tax base larger for the Central Illinois Regional Airport also would increase the maximum tax rate that could support the facility. It has passed the Senate and cleared a House committee.
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The mayor of Normal said he's had it with lengthy traffic jams caused by freight trains. Chris Koos said this has been an issue before and the Union Pacific Railroad has addressed it, but there has been backsliding.
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Bloomington-Normal is poised for prolonged healthy growth. But it will need help to make those dreams real, and changes at the state level could offer a boost to the Twin Cities.
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Homebuilders in Bloomington-Normal are playing catch up in meeting the growth of the last decade, the more recent expansion of the labor market, and projected future growth.
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The outgoing board president of the West Bloomington Revitalization Project says the culture of the group has helped it come back in 2022 from the pandemic and six feet of sewage in the basement during last year's big Bloomington flood.
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Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe said the presence of two universities and a community college in the Twin Cities offer a counter to the potential impression given to businesses by the referendum's defeat.
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By the end of the month, Normal Town Council members will have registered their individual priorities for the next few years with staff. Assistant City Manager Eric Hanson said the exercise will merge individual tallies before a final council vote on the list that includes short-term goals and long-term ones, like finding a site for a new police station.
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A judge in Georgia ruled that the Joint Development Authority could not prove the Rivian project was “sound, reasonable, and feasible”, so the company is not eligible for the bonds.
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The senior member of the Normal Town Council says it's reasonable that revisions of the town's sign ordinance will attract some heat, with competing interests to balance.