McLean County News Archives

A community is mourning the loss of a police Lieutenant who lost his battle with cancer last week.

A huge crowd turned out for McLean County's second H1N1 clinic Thursday. Multimedia Plenty of signs, organizers and volunteers were on hand directing the hundreds of people who turned out for the vaccination clinic.

Yes, it's a mindnumblingly stupid editorial , but you should remember the schlock of yester years like the breathless reporting of Satanic Worship coming to McLean County because a sheep was found bloodied and dead.A After reporting that it must be a sacrifice from a Satanic Cult, turns out someones dog got himself a bit of sheep.

The lines were long on Tuesday as hundreds of people packed into the Sale Barn in Bloomington to get the H1N1 vaccine.

A McLean County woman is the first confirmed death due to H-1-N-1 influenza in central Illinois.

McLean County has its first confirmed death due to H1N1 influenza. A 56-year-old woman died on Thursday.

Authorities say a police officer who is running for Livingston County sheriff made a successful bid in McLean County court to have his son's bond reduced on burglary charges.

Marty and Wendy Striegel, ages 53 and 54, respectively, want you to come to their totally radical Halloween costume party .

A 13-month old boy from Normal is at a Peoria Hospital after police say he was abused by his mother's boyfriend.

The Mclean County Coroner has identified the victim of the early Sunday morning fire at 2417 24th street in the Southgate Estates in Bloomington.

The driver of a vehicle that wrecked during an early-morning police pursuit Thursday on the Kansas Turnpike has been charged with four felonies in Illinois.

Authorities in Bloomington are investigating a fire death from overnight. The fire broke out around 1-30 this morning in a trailer in Southgate Estates.

Saturday was a big day for Sheri Gilmer and her two daughters, Emma and Elise. The Gilmer's new house, built by Habitat For Humanity of McLean County and Women Build, was blessed.

The McLean County Health Department is gearing up for the H1N1 influenza season.

Carl Bradley, assistant professor of plant pathology and Extension specialist for the University of Illinois, reported last week that soybean rust has been found on plants in Pulaski, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Jackson, Gallatin, Saline and White counties in Illinois.

Editor's note: Information in Police Briefs is obtained from the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office and city police departments.

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 McLean County Sheriff's deputy's car and a Normal Police car were involved in a four vehicle accident early Thursday morning.

The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission of McLean County is looking to raise $225,000 to erect a statue of Jesse Fell and Judge David Davis convincing the sixteenth president of the United States to run for office.

The biodiesel business gets a big boost for an energy crop discovered here in Central Illinois.

The Mclean County Coroner's office has indentified the two victims of yesterday's head-on car crash in Normal.

More details are emerging in the arrest of a McLean County man charged with killing his former father-in-law and family.

One of two McLean County residents, indicted for a bank robbery in Gridley earlier this year, was sentenced Friday to four years probation.

It's official... an arrest has been made in the case of the Gee family murder in Beason.