Children will be back in the classroom, as scheduled, Friday morning at District 87’s Stevenson Elementary School after a gas leak there.… MORE
Category Archives: Local News
District 87 investment portfolio takes hit from December stock market decline
The stock market’s worst December performance since the Great Depression was felt locally. District 87 School Board members found out Wednesday night that district investments of some funds that don’t come from taxes took a financial hit at year’s end.… MORE
UPDATED: Alexander Lumber Co. merging Bloomington lumberyard to LeRoy
Citing local economic and market factors, Alexander Lumber Company has announced it will be merging its Bloomington lumberyard into its LeRoy facility, will close several other lumberyards, and merge others around central Illinois.… MORE
Alexander Lumber Co. merging Bloomington lumberyard to LeRoy
Alexander Lumber Company has announced it will be merging its Bloomington location into LeRoy and several other lumberyards will close around central Illinois.… MORE
Pat Brady: Illinois people fed up with political party bashing
As a new Governor and lawmaking body take office in Illinois, former GOP chairman Pat Brady is advising both political sides to work together.… MORE
LaHood blasts Durbin’s Peoria visit as Trump appeals for southern border wall
If comments from a pair of federal lawmakers from Illinois are any indication, President Donald Trump and Congressional Democrats are far from coming to an agreement on border security to re-open the government.… MORE
Preservation panel urges council to stop East Beaufort Street demolitions
Opponents of an office plaza in Uptown Normal won a temporary victory Tuesday.… MORE
As election approaches, Normal council awards more Uptown tax incentives
Normal Town Council members are unanimously behind providing additional tax incentives to aid an Iowa developer’s plan to start construction later this year on a five-story building in Uptown Normal.… MORE
BPD: Two men arrested for West Jefferson Street slaying
Two Decatur men are jailed in McLean County accused of shooting-to-death a Bloomington man last month.… MORE
Bloomington turns to Decatur again, this time to find deputy city manager
The City of Bloomington found its new deputy city manager in the same place where last year it found its city manager.… MORE
Blogs
Labor Day – Expanding voting rights for all
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.” …
Is federal mobilization the answer?
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…
In these troubled times, to my fellow white Americans
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…
Workers’ Memorial Day – Remember those whose job took their life
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…