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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.

The McLean County Board has approved paying for overtime to enable county IT staff to resume video livestreaming of all committee meetings.

Illinois courts prepare for a greater role in mediating eviction claims starting Sept. 1

WGLT Cathy Beck, acting director of the McLean County Emergency Management Agency, said she has relied on volunteers and outside agencies to help manage the countys pandemic and flood responses. First there was the coronavirus pandemic. Then came flooding. The McLean County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) has had to manage two prolonged emergencies over the last year with one staff person. Assistant director Cathy Beck took over as acting EMA director last October when Bob Clark took medic...

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...

AP In a reversal of its earlier position, the CDC is now recommending that some fully vaccinated people wear masks indoors if they live in areas with significant or high COVID-19 spread. The CDC released new guidance Tuesday calling for fully vaccinated people to wear a mask in public indoor settings if they live in areas with significant or high spread. That includes McLean County. The CDC move comes as the highly transmissible Delta variant fuels a surge in cases around the country, and mul...

BLOOMINGTON — McLean and Piatt counties are now at "warning level" status on the Illinois Department of Public Healths COVID dashboard.  McLean County reported 50 new cases per 100,000 people for the week of July 11-17. Anything at over 50 triggers a warning.  Piatt County is at 104 during the same period.  Both counties also exceeded the threshold for emergency department visits with people who had COVID-19-like illnesses. Piatt also had a warning for the number of COVID tests...

Lexington is due to receive $250,000 in American Rescue Plan funds. McLean County cities and towns outside of Bloomington-Normal are waiting on millions of dollars in the last round of COVID relief funding. Lexington Mayor Spencer Johansen chairs the McLean County Mayors Association. Speaking on WGLTs Sound Ideas, Johansen said Lexington is due to get $250,300, but the Pritzker administration hasnt said when smaller communities will get the money. “It’s almost like you are waiting for a...

Normal, IL, USA / www.cities929.com Jul 16, 2021 | 3:45 PM Governor JB Pritzker today announced the State of Illinois is partnering with the American Red Cross to host a Multi-Agency Resource Center (MARC) in McLean County this weekend to help residents recover from recent storms and flash flooding. The MARC is an all-encompassing hub for residents to access disaster related relief services and information. The MARC brings together representatives from local and state agencies as well as essent...

Mailboxes are nearly submerged in flood water in Bloomington. Photo courtesy of Facebook/Megan Black McLean County business owners, property owners, and renters who suffered damage from storms that wreaked havoc on portions of the county on June 25, 26 and 27 can expect to see emergency management crews going door-to-door on Friday, July 2 and Saturday, July 3. McLean County issued a Declaration of Local Disaster earlier this week as a result of widespread damage from the three days of storms. ...