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The shift to more digital content is part of an industry trend as more newsrooms seek to cut printing and delivery costs while still connecting with readers who are increasingly online.

Despite the reputation of Bloomington-Normal as a staid, quiet community with nicknames such as "Borington" and "Insuranceville," the Twin Cities has a long history of protests. While there have been a lot of non-violent political protests around Bloomington-Normal lately, some past actions were not so civil.

The Bloomington Planning Commission on Wednesday recommended designating the former Pantagraph building at 301 W. Washington St. as a historical landmark.

In a statement, Pantagraph owner Lee Enterprises revealed a cybersecurity outage as the cause of a weeklong disruption to print and e-edition distribution.

The Bloomington Pantagraph and more than 70 other daily newspapers nationwide owned by Quad Cities-based Lee Enterprises is now in the fourth day of a technology outage that has halted delivery of its print editions and emailed electronic editions.

Most people know about the letter a little girl wrote to the New York Sun newspaper in 1897 asking whether Santa Claus is real. It prompted the famous response, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." Bloomington-Normal children encountered their own slightly more intrepid version of that idea a couple decades later.

The Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced spending bills that include money for the McLean County Historical Society. The measure includes $550,000 to help the Museum of History continue making online copies of photo negatives from The Pantagraph newspaper archives.

Alden Global Capital made an offer to Lee Enterprises on Monday morning to buy out the company at $24 per share. Lee Enterprises is the owner of three newspapers in Central Illinois, including The Pantagraph in Bloomington.

The parent company of Tthe Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington is moving its shares off the New York Stock Exchange and to Nasdaq that trades shares of…

Pantagraph sports editor Randy Kindred said he has been humbled by the outpouring of support he had heard from many of the newspaper's readers since he…