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DECATUR —The last of three new fire stations is one step closer to reality after the Decatur City Council approved a professional services agreement for design, bidding and construction oversight Monday evening. The council approved a $254,422 bid from Virginia-based Dewberry Architects, Inc. for the work on the new Fire Station 7, which will serve the southeast side of the city. Construction continues on the new Decatur Fire Station No. 3 in the Fairview Plaza Shopping Center. The new sta...

Watch now: Decatur bus transit DECATUR — Decatur Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe admitted that the current state of the downtown trolley is a pet peeve of hers. It’s a sentiment shared by several members of the city council, who expressed frustration with the lack of ridership, decrying it as a waste of resources. “They drive around town all day with nobody on them,” Moore Wolfe said. “... The driver must get really lonely.” But, concerns aside, the council voted Tuesday t...

BRENDEN MOORE DECATUR — Decatur Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe admitted that the current state of the downtown trolley is a pet peeve of hers. It’s a sentiment shared by several members of the city council, who expressed frustration with the lack of ridership, decrying it as a waste of resources. “They drive around town all day with nobody on them,” Moore Wolfe said. “... The driver must get really lonely.” But, concerns aside, the council voted Monday to auth...

DECATUR — Decatur Police Chief Jim Getz issued a warning to those who continue to stonewall police efforts to bring an end to the “senseless violence” that continues to plague the community. “It is time for those that have clout in these organizations to end the violence. If not, I promise you, we will do all we can to put you in prison for a long time,” Getz said in a statement issued Wednesday evening. It was the second time in six months that Getz issued a plea for p...

DECATUR — Within view of a sign along Wyckles Road welcoming motorists to Harristown, there is a building under construction at its intersection with West Main Street in need of tenants. Harristown Mayor Evelyn Deverell thinks it would be an ideal location for Macon County’s first recreational marijuana dispensary. “We approved pretty much everything,” Deverell said, referring to action taken by the village board in 2019 allowing most forms of cannabis businesses to be estab...

DECATUR — Decatur City Council members are used to grappling with problems of how to stretch too few tax dollars to cover the city’s needs. But their meeting Wednesday night presented them with a new and more pleasant financial conundrum: how to spend more than $458,000 of taxpayer money made available to them by the federal government for the sole purpose of helping people. Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe had earlier suggested council members come up with their own ideas for spending the Cor...

DECATUR — Decatur Mayor Julie Moore Wolfe confirmed Tuesday that she plans to seek appointment to the Illinois Senate seat recently vacated by Andy Manar. Manar announced his resignation earlier this year, effective Jan. 17, to take a position in Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration, leaving the seat — which includes much of Decatur — open. Whoever receives the appointment will serve out the final two years of Manars term.  Moore Wolfe, the city’s mayor since 2015, sa...

Names begin to emerge to replace Manar in Illinois Senate With Andy Manar’s resignation from the Illinois Senate taking effect Sunday, the process to find his replacement has officially begun.  But discussions over who might fill Manar’s seat have been ongoing in political circles ever since the announcement of the three-term senator’s early departure for a senior role in Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration two weeks ago. Possible candidates that have emerged include Springfield Ward 3 A...