Allin Street from Front Street to Grove Street will be closed starting Friday until Nov. 25. The Norfolk Southern Railway is repairing the railroad crossing on Allin Street. Drivers will need to find alternate routes.… MORE
Allin Street from Front Street to Grove Street will be closed starting Friday until Nov. 25. The Norfolk Southern Railway is repairing the railroad crossing on Allin Street. Drivers will need to find alternate routes.… MORE
Fell Ave. between Locust St. and Mulberry St. will be closed to through traffic Monday, November 23, 2015 through Tuesday, November 24, 2015 for sanitary sewer service repairs.… MORE
Brokaw Road from Towanda Barnes Road to Abraham Road will be closed starting today until early Spring 2016.… MORE
By WJBC Staff BLOOMINGTON – The intersection of Madison Street and Bissell Street will be closed immediately due to an emergency sewer repair starting Friday until further notice.… MORE
Weather permitting, on Friday, November 13, 2015, Lutz Road between Morris Ave. and the Luther Oaks Entrance will be closed for shoulder and pavement repairs from 6:30 AM to 5:30 PM. Access to the Luther Oaks Retirement Facility will be from the north via Hamilton Road to Greenwood Ave. to Lutz Rd.… MORE
Southbound Towanda Avenue from Monroe Street to Washington Street will be closed immediately for emergency sewer repairs and it will be reopened as soon as work is completed.… MORE
Fell Avenue between Vernon Avenue and Irving Street will be closed to through traffic from Monday to Wednesday for sewer service installation.… MORE
The 400 block of West Jefferson Street between Roosevelt and Lee will be closed, effective Thursday at noon, until work is complete. … MORE
South Downs Road, which is also CH 27 or 2100 East Road, between 500 North Road and the intersection of 600 North and 2075 East roads will be closed to through traffic on Thursday and Friday, weather permitting, for culvert replacement in this area. … MORE
Expect lane closures on Airport Road from Fort Jesse Road to Raab Road for pavement crack and joint sealing work starting at 8:00 a.m. on Thursday.… MORE
By Mike Matejka Because of COVID, there is no Labor Day Parade this year. It’s always a great event for our everyday workers to march proudly down the street and enjoys the festive crowd. If there had been a parade, this year’s Labor Day theme was to be “150 years of struggle: your right to vote.” …
By Mike Matejka As President Donald Trump threatens to send federal marshals into Chicago, over the objections of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, recall another Illinois Governor who protested the incursion of armed federal personnel into the city. Those federal troops, rather than calming, escalated the situation, leading to deaths and violence. Illinois poet Vachel Lindsay…
By Mike Matejka Our nation is at a unique watershed in human relations. African-Americans have been killed too many times in the past before George Floyd, but the response to this man’s death is international and all-encompassing. I was a grade-schooler during the Civil Rights 1960s. I watched Birmingham demonstrators hosed and the Selma – Montgomery…
Looking around our community, when we say employer, most will respond to State Farm, Country, or Illinois State University. We too often forget those who are building our roads, serving our food, or our public employees. COVID-19 has made us more aware of the risk. Going to work every day for some people means…