housing rehabilitation

The City of Bloomington’s projected budget for the 2026 fiscal year shows a city-wide decrease of $21 million, including a $9.4 million drop in the general fund.

There’s a new financing tool available in McLean County that could help nibble away at the size of the housing shortage in Bloomington Normal. It's called the Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy Program or C-PACE.

As new proposals to ease the Bloomington-Normal housing shortage move forward this spring and summer, city and town council members will weigh in on what they think. There’s already diversity of thought among council members on the issue.

City of Bloomington staff met with residents of the Gridley Allin Prickett neighborhood to get ideas for what should be promoted and what needs fixing in the area.

One of the wrinkles in the downtown Bloomington Tax Increment Financing District the city council has just created is that if it doesn't perform, half the property tax money generated will go back to taxing bodies like Bloomington schools.

The City of Bloomington is looking to expand its homeowner rehabilitation program after seeing an increase in state funding.The Illinois Housing…