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Stepping Stones rape crisis center at YWCA McLean County will face a $335,000 gap in its budget for the next fiscal year. Nonprofit leaders say they'll start the new fiscal year with about half of the staff they had in the previous year.

For a second consecutive year, McLean County has led all Illinois and U.S. counties in total production of both commodities with almost 71 million bushels of corn and 22 million bushels of soybeans harvested in 2022, according to the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

The City of Bloomington is putting a chunk of its pandemic relief money into homeless services, youth education and support, a program for sexual assault survivors, and the facility of a human services agency.

Stacker compiled a list of the counties with the warmest summers in Kentucky.

Catholic dioceses in Illinois failed to disclose hundreds of abusive clerics before the state opened what would become a yearslong investigation into sex abuse within the church, Attorney General Kwame Raoul announced Tuesday.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know to start your day for Monday, May 22, 2023. You'll hear about the bill changing Central Illinois Regional Airport's tax base which has now won final approval in Springfield. Plus, an interview with YWCA McLean County about expansion plans for its rape crisis center.

Hispanic entrepreneurs can apply for a Small Business grant from the PepsiCo foundation. Read about this opportunity and more small business grants in the list below.

McLean County officials are studying the results of what they call an eye-opening survey on rural residents' level of satisfaction with their internet service.

WGLT talks to Alicia Whitworth from YWCA McLean County about expansion plans for its rape crisis center, Stepping Stones. The expansion is funded in part by a $200,000 grant from the state’s Human Services Capital Investment Grant program.

The Illinois Broadband Lab is seeking to find out what kind of experiences people are having with internet. Th...