Labyrinth program helps women rebound after prison
September 2, 2019Nicole Williamson shudders to think where she would be without the YWCA McLean County’s Labyrinth program. “I don’t know where I’d be at all,” Williamson pondered a recent…
Nicole Williamson shudders to think where she would be without the YWCA McLean County’s Labyrinth program. “I don’t know where I’d be at all,” Williamson pondered a recent…
It’s an uncomfortable, jarring topic that all too often runs the risk of being swept under the figurative rug and not discussed. But the newest leader of a nearly 30-year-old tri-county…
BLOOMINGTON LINK program tied to Farmers’ Market Week On Saturday, Aug. 10, the Downtown Bloomington Farmers’ Market celebrated National Farmers’ Market Week with a special Link…
Illinois State University ended its recent fiscal year with a record amount of donor dollars. The milestone comes at a time when state financial resources are pinched. In its…
BLOOMINGTON Registration open for Labor Day Parade Registration for Bloomington’s Labor Day Parade is available at www.bntrades.org. The annual parade is Monday, Sept. 2, 10…
BLOOMINGTON BCPA and Nitsch Theater Arts offers classes The Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, 107 E. Chestnut St., Bloomington, is partnering with the Nitsch Theatre Arts…
BLOOMINGTON YWCA early childhood program gets top honors YWCA Young Wonders received the Gold Circle of Quality designation from ExceleRate Illinois, the state’s quality recognition…
The first time the Peplow descendants held a family reunion, a passenger train still ran from Minier to Peoria every evening. That was in 1930. This year, on July 28, the relatives…
Wet fields kept the majority of Illinois farmers from planting for a second consecutive week, but windows for field work will be arriving soon. In addition, the U.S. EPA finally green-lighted…
Third in a series looking at the public funding of sports stadiums in Illinois Pat Quinn was on the ice in 2010 when the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup, and in Houston in 2005 when…
SPRINGFIELD – Illinois continues to suffer from a shortage of teachers and other education professionals, although recent efforts by the state to ease the strain have made an impact….
SPRINGFIELD — Two bills that would regulate battery disposal and storage are awaiting action from the full Illinois Senate after unanimous committee approval. Senate Bill 3481, sponsored…
Scott Britton walked out to driveway to get his Sunday newspaper, only to find near it a plastic bag filled with rice (to keep it from blowing away) and anti-Semitic literature. Britton,…
First in a series looking at the public funding of Illinois sports stadiums Tom Tresser gets sick every time he hears something is needed to make Chicago “a world-class city.” “It…