By WMBD-TV BLOOMINGTON – The Bloomington-Normal Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, also known as Visit BN, has started a search for a new president/CEO. The new CEO will lead Visit BN in its mission to promote local events and highlight Bloomington Normal as a tourism destination. They will work with the rest of the board…… MORE
Residents of Mt. Hope-Funks Grove Fire Protection District will have three separate tax propositions on the general election ballot.… MORE
Central Catholic High School has been awarded $1 million to focus on student mental health needs.… MORE
The regular season is over, it’s time for postseason football.… MORE
By Jake Fogal NORMAL – The top two teams of the Big 12 Conference squared off in the final week of the 2024 regular season Friday night. Normal Community hosted Peoria at Dick Tharp Field in Week 9, and with both programs already securing postseason spots, focus was pointed towards a conference title. The Lions…… MORE
In Mr. Lincoln’s hometown, in the museum dedicated to telling his story, 75 people from 37 countries became United States citizens.… MORE
There’s a new chairman at the head of the Board of Directors for State Farm.… MORE
A McLean County Judge handed down a 15-year prison sentence to an 18-year-old Bloomington man for a shooting that took place in 2023.… MORE
By early 2019, Mike McClain had been a fixture around the Statehouse in Springfield for the better part of 50 years, first as a Democratic lawmaker in the 1970s and then for decades as a high-profile contract lobbyist.… MORE
It seems like scammers are trying to call or text you asking for personal information and money.… 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…