Livingston County

This month voters in Prairie Central approved a referendum allowing the school district to borrow $38 million for necessary facility upgrades, including a new centralized elementary school in Fairbury. That means the current Prairie Central Primary West elementary school in Chenoa will close, as well as two others in Chatsworth and Fairbury.

Technical Metals Inc. in Fairbury is a 55-year-old family business that provides grinding, welding and other metal services to heavy equipment manufacturers.

The Pontiac Public Library is hosting the month-long exhibition with special events scheduled for Feb. 11 and 22.

McLean County's decision to drop Show Bus as its rural transportation provider and explore a partnership with Connect Transit poses challenges and tight deadlines for other counties in the region that Show Bus may still serve.

Rural homelessness is on the rise and not all counties have the tools they need to help people find permanent supportive housing. In Central Illinois, most rural counties don't have homeless shelters.

A former worker at a boys’ home in rural Livingston County faces embezzlement charges.

There are unhoused families with children across McLean County — and neighboring Livingston County — in need of support, said the five panelists from area schools and social service agencies. Each of the panelists explained they are doing the best with what they have, but it’s not enough.

A traveling exhibit highlighting rural innovation features seven Illinois communities. Fairbury and Chatsworth partnered to bring "Spark! Places of Innovation" to Livingston County.

Judges in the 11th Judicial Circuit in central Illinois have chosen Livingston County State's Attorney Randy Yedinak to fill a vacant associate judge's position.

Pontiac residents and community leaders are worried. The Illinois Department of Corrections moved 171 medium-security inmates from the Pontiac Correctional Center to other prisons early this year, and the fear is the rest of the prison built in the 1870s will shut down, too.