Towanda News

McLean County, Ill., will apply for a grant that will extend the Historic Route 66 Bike Trail about 2 1/2 miles north from Towanda, reported the Bloomington Pantagraph .

Four McLean County office holders won't be getting any pay raises until 2016. According to our news partner WJBC Radio and information provided by McLean County, the county board Tuesday voted to set raises between one and two percent for the circuit clerk, coroner, auditor and recorder in 2016 but their salaries remain frozen until then.

The sixth annual Red Carpet Corridor Festival will be held Saturday and Sunday along 90 miles of historic U.S. Route 66 between the Joliet Area Historical Society and Schenk's U.S. Route 66 Garage in Towanda.