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The Town of Normal is making interim appointments to adjust for a vacancy in the assistant city manager's post. City Manager Pam Reece has temporarily appointed corporation counsel Brian Day to that role.
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The Federal Railroad Administration is giving Illinois $95.1 million for passenger train service. Some of that will go toward the Chicago-to-St. Louis corridor that includes Bloomington-Normal, Pontiac and Lincoln in central Illinois.
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Normal Mayor Chris Koos said the town bears some responsibility for the problems in the Savannah Green subdivision that will be costly to fix, including the town council approving nearly $4 million to repair crumbling streets and alleys.
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Bloomington-Normal may need a different approach to stimulate housing construction. The community first quantified the need for housing in a study a year ago and updated it in June to an estimated 7,500 units.
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The valuation of properties and community growth may result in Bloomington's property tax rate going down, according to City Manager Tim Gleason.
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A group that sees electrified scooters as the answer to transportation gaps in Bloomington-Normal says it’s making progress on a yearslong effort to bring a rentable fleet to the community.
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On April 15, 2024, Alan Beaman will return to the McLean County Law and Justice Center where he was convicted, this time for a civil trial against three Normal police officers he has accused of framing him on the murder charges.
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There are several reasons why the Town of Normal will pay for a study of how sturdy its three parking decks are. One of them is to see whether solar arrays can go on the roofs to see if the decks will bear the weight.
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So-called "carbon sequestration" takes carbon dioxide produced by industrial processes like ethanol plants, compresses it to a liquid form, pipes it across the Midwest, and injects it deep under bedrock layers in places like Decatur, and potentially McLean County.
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The assistant city manager for the Town of Normal has taken the job of city manager in Galesburg. Eric Hanson has been with Normal for 4 1/2 years.