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Emily Bollinger / WGLT UPDATED 12:20 p.m. | McLean County health officials say the rate of new coronavirus cases has dropped in recent weeks, but they are calling for more vigilance as another holiday approaches. The McLean County Health Department (MCHD) reported 75 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday, while an additional 227 patients have recovered. The McLean County Health Department announced 75 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday. Credit McLean County Health Department Bloomington...

Charlie Schlenker / WGLT Two people charged in looting incidents that led to more than 40 arrests last summer in the Twin Cities  lost their bids for a new judge on Monday after a second judge rejected their bias claim against Judge William Yoder. “This is not business as usual,” said McEldowney. Defendants in the looter cases are being treated differently than others accused of felony burglary, said McEldowney, calling Yoders position “a blanket decision" that amounts to “an abus...

Emily Bollinger / WGLT McLean County’s COVID-19 testing positivity rate continues to drop, but hospitalizations and other metrics are trending in the wrong direction. The McLean County Health Department (MCHD) on Monday reported 237 new confirmed COVID cases over the weekend, as the testing positivity rate fell to 8.4%. That’s down more than a full percentage point from last week. Four more people from McLean County are hospitalized, bringing the total to 28 hospitalized patients—jus...

WGLT An armed-and-dangerous suspect in a string of vehicle thefts was captured Sunday near Minonk, after eluding authorities for several days. Multiple law enforcement agencies in McLean and Woodford counties were looking for Todd Kelly Jr., 36, of Gridley. He and his girlfriend, Alyssa J. Thrasher, 21, were "suspects in numerous open investigations involving a string of motor vehicle thefts within the last week," McLean County prosecutors said Saturday. They were spotted Thursday in Bloo...

McLean County frontline healthcare workers received their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Friday afternoon. McLean County was not on the states list of the 50 Illinois counties with the highest death rates per capita. “We’re excited to be receiving some of McLean County’s first supply of COVID-19 vaccines,” Carle BroMenn Medical Center President Colleen Kannaday said. “This arrival marks a very important step in the fight against COVID-19 and moving towards...

News is brought to you by Jack Lewis Jewelers Front-line health care workers in McLean County received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, December 18, 2020. “We’re excited to be receiving some of McLean County’s first supply of COVID-19 vaccines,” stated Colleen Kannaday, President, Carle BroMenn Medical Center.  “This arrival marks a very important step in the fight against COVID-19 and moving towards a healthier future. While we are still in the tunnel, we can begin to...

WATCH: Gov. Pritzker gives COVID-19 update on Dec. 18, 2020 Illinois public health officials reported 7,377 COVID-19 cases and 181 related deaths Friday as the death toll since the pandemic began surpassed 15,000. Illinois Director of Public Health Dr. Ngozi Ezike shared a bit of good news during Fridays press conference: Illinois did not see a post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID-19 cases. "I am really happy to say that we did not see the significant surge that we were very much concerned about in...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois public health officials reported 7,377 COVID-19 cases and 181 related deaths Friday as the death toll since the pandemic began surpassed 15,000. The total number of cases in Illinois now stands at 886,805, with a total of 15,015 deaths. WATCH: Gov. Pritzker gives COVID-19 update on Dec. 18, 2020 Illinois public health officials reported 7,377 COVID-19 cases and 181 related deaths Friday as the death toll since the pandemic began surpassed 15,000. Illinois Director of P...

McLean County Health Department / OSF HealthCare / Courtesy UPDATED 8:45 p.m. | The first COVID-19 vaccine has officially arrived in McLean County. Front-line health care workers received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Friday, officials said. McLean County unexpectedly received a "small allotment of unused doses" from a surrounding county, officials said. OSF St. Joseph Medical Center employees were photographed receiving the vaccine Friday. Carle BroMenn Medical Center staff ...

Carle BroMenn / McLean County Health Department Tracy Sondag has been on the front lines of COVID as a nurse manager at Carle BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, where 23 coronavirus patients are now hospitalized. On Saturday, Sondag was at the front of the line. At around 6 a.m. she became one of the first people at Carle BroMenn—and in Bloomington-Normal—to receive the COVID vaccine. “It’s kind of surreal, because that was not the intention at first for me to be the very first one, it...