More than 100 artist/vendors are participating in this year's juried art fair, which takes over Uptown Normal one weekend a year.

Mayor Chris Koos honored Terri Ryburn as the Town of Normal's Citizen of the Year at a reception on Tuesday. Ryburn is retiring in December as caretaker of the historic Sprague's Super Service on Pine Street.

Amy Erdman Farrell will discuss her award-winning book Oct. 5 at Illinois Wesleyan University.

October is LGBTQ+ History Month. To celebrate, Prairie Pride Coalition is bringing a traveling exhibit which highlights 125 queer icons in an interactive digital display.

The garden unveiled a new addition this week: a bronze cast sculpture by Bloomington's Herb Eaton that nods to the Twin Cities' circus roots.

Mixed-media artist Selina Trepp has her first solo exhibition at University Galleries in Uptown. Running through Oct. 3, 'Unprofessional Practices' features two short films created through stop-motion animation.

The singer/songwriter from Metamora has a new EP called More Than Just Bones, part of his deepening collaboration with Charles Wesley Godwin of Pittsburgh-based band The Allegheny High.

Bloomington-Normal was home to the oldest and longest continuously running underground newspaper in United States history. The paper, called Post Amerikan, ran from 1972-2004 and is now the subject of a feature length documentary screening Friday at the Normal Theater.

This is a story of families torn apart during war and never reunited. It’s a story of cultural identity and how that first disruption echoes into the present day. The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is a well-known story. Little known is the deportation of people of Japanese descent from Central and South American countries to U.S. camps.

Bob Sutherland died Thursday morning at the age of 88. Family and friends are remembering him as a staunch advocate for civil rights and steward of the county's Jail Review Committee.

The century-old troupe performed golden age musicals the year Tony Kushner wrote his two-part masterpiece set at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Community Players says there's no time like the present for its debut production.

As the nation marks the 25th anniversary of the attacks on Sept. 11, Bloomington-Normal literary enthusiasts are also marking 25 years of David Foster Wallace's essay, The View From Mrs. Thompson's.