Transportation

Delta Air Lines will resume flights between Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington and Detroit Metropolitan Airport on Feb. 6, which is earlier than expected. The flights will operate six days per week on 50-seat regional jets.

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

Nearly 100 airports across Illinois, including the Central Illinois Regional Airport in Bloomington, will receive state funding in the coming months for projects ranging from new runways and road relocations to the purchase of mowers and snow removal equipment.

McLean County sheriff's police said a car drove into a school bus with children, forcing the bus onto its side in a ditch Friday morning.

The McLean County Regional Planning Commission has been awarded $100,000 to create a safety improvement plan for Veterans Parkway in Bloomington-Normal.

It started with breaded chicken patties, though that shortage last spring was far from the last one the Illinois State University dining operation has had to scramble to fix.

The new Midwestern Regional Rail plan from 12 states and the federal government would take billions of dollars to achieve. But Rick Harnish of the High Speed Rail Alliance said the price tag is a fraction of the cost of building Interstate 55 from scratch.

Some of the more than 1,300 residents of the Town of Normal who are way behind on water and sewer utility payments, potentially because of the pandemic, have begun to take care of the problem.

Bloomington-Normal's public bus system said Thursday it has to reduce service because it doesn't have enough drivers. Connect Transit General Manager David Braun said weekday bus service on certain routes will come less frequently.

When school began in Unit 5 this fall, a lot of school buses were getting kids to class late. Too many, according to Chris Coyle, the area general manager for First Student, the company that has the Unit 5 bus contract.