For more than 20 years, cool individuals have taken the Polar Plunge across the state of Illinois and 2023 is going to be no different.… MORE

For more than 20 years, cool individuals have taken the Polar Plunge across the state of Illinois and 2023 is going to be no different.… MORE
The St. Louis Cardinals Caravan is coming back to Bloomington!… MORE
Give the gift of life this holiday season with the American Red Cross’ 24th Annual Holiday Blood Drive. … MORE
Uptown Normal is welcoming Santa’s Station back for the 2022 Holiday Season!… MORE
Santa Hoofs is coming back to The Barking Lot and you have the opportunity to take Christmas pictures for your 2022 holiday!… MORE
Join WJBC for Bloomington-Normal’s premier holiday kick-off event, The Baby Fold’s Festival of Trees!… MORE
Bruegala: A Festival of Beer is embracing spooky season this year!… MORE
Uptown Normal is being transformed into one giant playground for the Children Discovery Museum’s Day of Play!… MORE
Oktoberfest is coming to Uptown Normal this September!… MORE
The Evergreen Cemetery Walk is back and better than ever for another monumental year in 2022.… 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…