As we start to celebrate the new year, we are also looking back on 2009. We asked our viewers earlier this month to vote on the big stories of the year.

Pat Sheerin, chef at the Signature Room at the 95th was a recipient of one of Stan Schutte's Mangalitsa hogs, which I wrote about last month .

Bill Kemp, an archivist with the McLean County Museum of History, wrote an interesting article in the Bloomington Pantagraph about the history of grain elevators.

A group of several dozen bicyclists are riding on or near Route 66 from the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge near St.

In recent days, the Normal City Council approved a bicycling-pedestrian master plan, and the McLean County Board approved an engineering contract for a proposed Route 66 bikeway.

WMBD/WYZZ TV - MCLEAN COUNTY -- A Chenoa man is behind bars charged with an anger-fueled crashing spree that happened earlier this month.