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For most property owners, the fee increase will amount to an additional $1.21 per month in 2024. Another $1.22 will be added in 2025.

Central Park and Preston Jackson Park to remain closed between midnight and 6 a.m.

For most property owners, the fee increase will amount to an additional $1.21 per month in 2024. Another $1.22 will be added in 2025.

City manager Scot Wrighton has asked the city council to consider a 7% increase in the citys property tax levy for 2024, which would be paired with other "revenue enhancements."

The council voted unanimously Monday to name the block surrounding the Staley Museum "Staley Square" and the 1000 block of South Webster Street in honor of Jefferson and Booker Joyner.

To this point, conversations around Decaturs water supply have centered around improving resiliency during peak drought conditions. But on Monday, the city council authorized staff to go beyond that threshold.

Recommendations include implementing a "road diet" for Jasper Street, creating a bike and walking path separate from the road and building a new "civic plaza" gathering space.

The $180,000 electric ice finisher will replace an older gas-powered model.

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — A Decatur family is left with more questions than answers after learning the city plans to tear down their home as part of an urban garden

DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) — The city of Decatur is moving forward with an urban garden project that will take up almost two blocks of the Old Kings Orchard neighborhood. On