Ryan Otto

There are a lot of road-closed-except-to-local-traffic signs out there in the Town of Normal this summer during the height of the street repair season.

The Normal Town Council on Monday unanimously approved a $209.2 million Community Investment Plan (CIP) laying out capital investments over the next six years.

The state of Illinois has agreed to fund most of a long-promised traffic safety study around the Illinois State University campus in Normal and on the Constitution Trail.

Ryan Otto, the town's director of engineering, says the planned extension runs along Gregory Street in northwest Normal, between Adelaide Street and Parkside Road. It will connect a park, three schools, Illinois State University and several neighborhoods to the trail.

The Town of Normal is exploring how to redesign a 1.85-mile stretch of Vernon Avenue, running from Beaufort Street on the west to Towanda Avenue on the east.

There are new street lights in Normal where an Illinois State University student was killed after a vehicle struck her in late November 2021 as she walked across the street at College Avenue and Kingsley Street.

The Town of Normal will study the intersection and crosswalk where an Illinois State University graduate student was struck and killed earlier this week.

The City of Bloomington and Town of Normal are working together to hire a consultant to help establish rules for deploying wireless technology all over…