Historic Preservation

The McLean County Museum of History will digitize around 30,000 never-before-seen photographs after receiving a grant of $550,000.

A community group's effort to save the village's old water tower has failed, but the tower also seems to have been spared the scrap yard.

Most solar panel projects in Normal have been roof mounted so far but there is potential for more ground mounted units like the one the council approved this week for Grace Church on Hovey Avenue.

Historians and McLean County officials gathered at West Park north of LeRoy to dedicate a new historic marker that details the history of the Kickapoo tribe in central Illinois.

The weather should be perfect for the 2023 Old House Society Tour of Homes, returning to Normal for the first time in over a decade.

The fate of 1,500-plus artifacts, including some tied to Lincoln’s murder, is unclear as a foundation pulls items out of a state Lincoln museum.

A former health care facility in Normal is now on the National Register of Historic Places.

The first tenants of the former Bloomington High School building in downtown Bloomington began moving in a couple of weeks ago, following a $17 million…

Those who care about Bloomington’s history have a few more days to help shape what the city will do to preserve it.The City of Bloomington is refreshing…

The City of Bloomington’s next Community Preservation Plan may put more emphasis on the not-so-distant past and more visibly connect the dots between…