Home Sweet Home Ministries

The McLean County Board on Thursday approved an audit of the county’s mental health and public safety sales tax fund. The resolution to the intergovernmental agreement [IGA] will require approval by the Town of Normal and City of Bloomington.

After several years of planning, two public forums, getting funding approval and securing the location, Home Sweet Home Ministries broke ground on its new shelter village, The Bridge.

Thomas Metcalf School sixth-graders designed and built a tiny house that Home Sweet Home Ministries will put in its shelter village.

Home Sweet Home Ministries has officially launched the Build the Bridge campaign, a new fundraising effort to help construct its planned shelter village. The campaign's goal is $750,000.

The purchase of a Connect Transit lot in Bloomington keeps shelter village construction on schedule and within budget.

The Connect Transit board has approved the sale of a vacant lot for a planned shelter village in Bloomington. The village, called The Bridge, is intended to be a low-barrier, non-congregate shelter for the unhoused population in Bloomington-Normal.

The McLean County Board on Thursday approved Home Sweet Home Ministries’ request for a $1.3 million grant from the McLean County behavioral health coordination.

The McLean County Board's Executive Committee on Monday unanimously approved a request for money to partially fund Home Sweet Home Ministries’ non-congregate shelter known as The Bridge.

Home Sweet Home Ministries will present a grant proposal Monday that, if approved, would cover almost half the money needed to build a proposed shelter village for the unhoused in Bloomington called The Bridge.

A major sewer construction project is moving forward in Normal, near Sugar Creek, now that a tent encampment has dispersed.