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Days of Our Lives (DOOL) spoilers recap for Tuesday, May 16, reveals that Roman Brady took Kate Roberts Brady and put her ring set back on her finger.

In an effort to maintain Frisco’s year-round population, the town is establishing a new program that would offer low-interest home improvement loans without monthly payments to permanent residents. The Frisco Town Council unanimously approved a...

Andrew Held and his sister were both adopted from Guatemala.

The McLean County Board of Health voted Wednesday to continue its contact tracer program, at least through November.

Originally published on April 14, 2021 11:03 pm Members of the McLean County Board of Health said Wednesday that its a priority to maintain the county’s full COVID-19 contact tracing program. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) has OKd extending the program through Dec. 31. County health department administrator Jessica McKnight explained, however, that current funding wont cover the 50-person staff through that date. During Wednesday’s board meeting, she and the departments...

The McLean County Board of Health meets Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. The continuing COVID pandemic, and the challenges facing the health department because of it, were the focus of Wednesday’s McLean County Board of Health meeting.  The department is developing long-term plans beyond spring, but still is unable to plan out for vaccine quantities for more than a week at a time, said administrator Jessica McKnight. MCHD learns Wednesday or Thursday how many doses will arrive the following week. A...

Some of the largest landlords in Aspen have elected to increase the rent of hundreds of local residents this year, and many of those renters are suffering economically due to the COVID-19 crisis. At the Centennial rental apartment complex, where there are 148 units, rents were increased as much as 3% for some renters, which is nearly a $650 annual increase. However, Andrew Held, president and chief operating officer of Birge & Held, which acquired Centennial last March, said the average increas...

Bloomington Police McLean County law enforcement agencies reported an average amount of gun violence in 2020. That’s a significant deviation from the national picture and the numbers in some other central Illinois communities. Bloomington Police said there were 27 shooting incidents last year. The five-year average is 28. The three-year average is 25. Police in Normal recorded 30 gun cases in 2020 compared with 31 in 2019. Shots fired incidents dropped slightly from 14 to nine in Normal. ...

The McLean County Board of Health met Wednesday, January 13, 2021 As Illinois COVID-19 vaccine distribution begins its next phase Monday, many older residents and essential workers are eager to get their shots, officials said at Wednesdays meeting of the McLean County Board of Health. Currently, in Phase 1a, only health care workers and nursing home residents can be vaccinated against the coronavirus. But the department is readying for Phase 1b, said Jessica McKnight, McLean County Health Depar...