Habitat For Humanity

The first Blo-No Home Show features over 60 vendors and exhibitors from an array of topics and products in the home, design and lifestyle industries. Proceeds from the event benefit Habit for Humanity, which hopes to build four new homes in McLean County this year.

Sharee Conely applied for the Habitat for Humanity program in 2022 and waited two years before being selected. She said her motivation to stay the course was her children.

Habitat for Humanity of McLean County broke ground on its 200th house on Saturday, holding a ceremony in honor of the home's recipients and agency co-founder Judy Stone.

The center of Barb and Bob Hathway's community service was connections made with other change-makers at First United Methodist Church of Normal.

Habitat for Humanity of McLean County has a new executive director, and she's got big goals for 2024. This includes the 200 for 200 campaign, which would see the local nonprofit build its 200th home.

Beginning last week, WGLT began profiling the 2023 McLean County History Makers. The series continues with retired Illinois State University professors Mary and Hank Campbell, whose careers in social work and industrial technology naturally blended with decades of local and global community service.

The McLean County group that builds homes for families in need faces much higher construction costs, even with free labor.

Inflation is hitting people with low incomes in Bloomington-Normal, and the social service agencies that support them.

After losing their son in the war in Afghanistan almost a decade ago, a Bloomington-Normal family has searched for how to honor his life. That family found a way, to give his legacy a home.

Sgt. Anthony Maddox lost his life in 2013 after sustaining burns on most of his body in a petroleum incident in Afghanistan.He was memorialized last year…