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McLean County residents looking to get tested for COVID-19 on Monday encountered long lines at Bloomington’s community-based testing site, even as officials promised more resources.

McLean County health officials on Wednesday reported the county's 300th death related to COVID-19. It was a woman in her 70s.

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Twenty thousand McLean County residents have contracted the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. The county reached that benchmark on Tuesday as it announced 53 daily infections.

/ Reditus Labs will continue to run the COVID testing site at the Interstate Center in west Bloomington. The COVID-19 testing site at the Interstate Center in Bloomington won’t close this week after all. Reditus Labs of Pekin announced on Thursday the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) decided that community-based testing sites — including the site at the Interstate Center—- will remain open, citing a rise in coronavirus cases, "significant concerns" about the highly contagious...

WGLT McLean County reported its biggest surge in new coronavirus case since mid-May on Wednesday with 130 new weekly cases. The McLean County Health Department (MCHD) also announced one of its youngest COVID-related deaths to date: a woman in her 30s who was not associated with long-term care. The health department also said it will resume daily COVID-19 updates on weekdays. MCHD urges the public to follow the CDC’s new guidance that calls for fully vaccinated people to wear masks in indo...

/ Javier Valle with Reditus Labs takes a swab from a motorist at the COVID-19 drive-thru testing facility at the Interstate Center in Bloomington McLean Countys largest coronavirus testing facility for much of the last year, the Interstate Center in Bloomington, will close its testing site at the end of July, and the areas largest vaccination site also has set a timetable for shutting down. Private health care providers say they are ready to continue the public health response. At its peak l...

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A health care worker administers a throat swab test at a drive-in COVID-19 testing center. McLean County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations, active caseload and testing positivity rate are down, as health officials report 70 new confirmed or probable coronavirus cases over the weekend. The new cases bring the county’s total to 18,123 since the start of the pandemic. The testing positivity rate (7-rolling) fell to 2.5% — the first time since March 17 the rate has dipped below 3%. There are curre...

AP Former Gov. Jim Edgar, left, was in Bloomington on Thursday for an event. Here he is in 2014 with the last Republican governor, Bruce Rauner. The Lincoln Club of McLean County on Thursday evening hosted its inaugural event at the Bloomington Country Club. Billed as an educational forum, the event was entitled "Can Illinois Be Fixed?" As debated by a panel of GOP leaders, that question centered largely around another question: Can Republicans unseat Gov. JB Pritzker in the 2022 gubernatorial...