Category Archives: News

No one knows if Normal's Gordmans will be one of the stores that's going to close. A new company is buying the retail outlet, and says it will close about half of the Gordmans stores across the countr...

Home sales in Bloomington-Normal are up from last year. The Realtors Association released February's numbers this week. A dearth of available homes drove up prices for buyers. 140 homes were sold in t...

ISU wants to keep tuition flat next year. President Larry Dietz is recommending no tuition increase for the fall. He's also asking trustees to keep housing and fees flat. Dietz says the school is tryi...

Campus leaders at Illinois State University are the latest to deal with the mumps. Doctors this week confirmed three cases at the school. They expect more to follow. ISU is telling students to wash th...

There's another 'agenda' at the Illinois Capitol, this time from Democrats. Lawmakers yesterday unveiled what they're calling the Comeback Agenda as a way to try and get closer to a state budget. But ...

Lawyers for former Congressman Aaron Schock say the federal government crossed the line when it used a staffer as an informant. Newly released court documents paint a picture of a staffer for Schock w...

The toughest part about convincing people there's a need to change Normal is convincing people there's a need to change. But candidate for mayor Marc Tiritilli says once he explains the town's finance...

Sen. Bill Brady Tuesday jump-started the conversation to end a two-year budget impasse as he introduced a full and balanced Fiscal Year 2018 budget that protects the state's highest priority programs,...

34-year-old Christopher Beck of Bloomington, who was seriously injured when his motorcycle collided with a school bus carrying Unit 5 students, has now filed a lawsuit against First Student and the bu...

Three-quarters of voters in Illinois want to see marijuana decriminalized. Two-thirds want to see it legalized all together.  A new poll, released yesterday, by the Paul Simon Public Policy Insti...