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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 indoor public settings in areas where there is significant or high coronavirus spread. McLean County mee...

/ Javier Valle with Reditus Labs takes a swab from a motorist at the COVID-19 drive-thru testing facility at the Interstate Center in Bloomington McLean County's largest coronavirus testing facility for much of the last year, the Interstate Center in Bloomington, will close its testing site at the end of July, and the area's largest vaccination site also has set a timetable for shutting down. Private health care providers say they are ready to continue the public health response. At its peak last November, the Interstate Center was conducting more than 1,000 coronavirus tests per day, acco...

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A health care worker administers a throat swab test at a drive-in COVID-19 testing center. McLean County’s COVID-19 hospitalizations, active caseload and testing positivity rate are down, as health officials report 70 new confirmed or probable coronavirus cases over the weekend. The new cases bring the county’s total to 18,123 since the start of the pandemic. The testing positivity rate (7-rolling) fell to 2.5% — the first time since March 17 the rate has dipped below 3%. There are currently 21 McLean County residents being treated for COVID complications, down from 35 patients reporte...

AP Former Gov. Jim Edgar, left, was in Bloomington on Thursday for an event. Here he is in 2014 with the last Republican governor, Bruce Rauner. The Lincoln Club of McLean County on Thursday evening hosted its inaugural event at the Bloomington Country Club. Billed as an educational forum, the event was entitled "Can Illinois Be Fixed?" As debated by a panel of GOP leaders, that question centered largely around another question: Can Republicans unseat Gov. JB Pritzker in the 2022 gubernatorial race? The answer, according to former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar is … maybe. He was joined on the pa...