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McLean County Sheriff Matt Lane has joined dozens of Illinois sheriffs in refusing to enforce at least part of the state's new assault weapons ban.

Illinois State University in Normal will host the first debate between Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey.

Illinois candidates for governor talked agriculture policy at an ag sector roundtable Wednesday consisting of more than 100 industry leaders. The session was held in McLean County at Shuler Farms in rural Lexington.

The Illinois State University Board of Trustees currently has five members, the minimum required to meet and vote on university matters.

The Illinois governor said he wouldn’t oppose President Joe Biden, and he lacks the name recognition of other potential candidates. But he’s hitting the national circuits.

Republican candidate for governor Richard Irvin met with law enforcement at a campaign stop in Bloomington on Friday as new polling shows him trailing party frontrunner Darren Bailey by double digits with less than three weeks before the primary election.

Teachers union leaders in Bloomington-Normal say they support Gov. JB Pritzker's vaccine requirement for all teachers. The governor made the announcement on Thursday, citing surges in COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

The statewide mask mandate indoors is back, and educators and health care professionals will be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. JB Pritzker announced Thursday amid an ongoing surge in the pandemic that first arrived in Illinois in March 2020.

Gov. JB Pritzker and other Democratic leaders announced Thursday that they have agreed to a plan to repay the money Illinois borrowed from the Federal Reserve during the COVID-19 pandemic before the end of the next fiscal year.

For the first time since late March, McLean County's active coronavirus caseload has dropped below 400.