Jacob Beard

UPDATED 5:10 P.M. | Mail-in and provisional ballots have flipped the results in a closely contested McLean County Board race.

UPDATED 1:45 P.M. | It will be two weeks before the community knows the outcome of a contested McLean County Board race.

McLean County Board Chairman John McIntyre held on in a close battle for re-election while Republicans maintained slim leads in several close races in their hope to maintain a majority.

Participants in Thursday night’s virtual Bloomington-Normal NAACP candidate forum were unified in denouncing white supremacy. 

A proposal to regulate gatherings on county property -- which called for issuing organizers a fine if they don't provide advance notice of demonstrations and other events -- has stalled in a McLean County Board committee.

McLean County Board members are raising a collective eyebrow at a proposed ordinance that would regulate public gatherings on county property.

McLean County Board member Jacob Beard has announced he's running for re-election next year.