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By: Diane Benjamin https://illinoisroute66.org/2026/09/mclean-county-visitor-spending-reaches-549-million-in-2025 Celebrating? Excerpt from that story: The report found t
By: Diane Benjamin If Bloomington wanted to be transparent, ALL costs pertaining to shows would be on the event reports. They believe booking future shows would be affect
By: Diane Benjamin Read this story: https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-09-15/bnwrd-steps-in-to-solve-colonial-meadows-water-woes The Bloomington-Normal Water Reclamatio
By: Diane Benjamin Remember when Bernie Sanders could have been the Democrat nominee for president before the process was “fixed” against him? Democrats used to know he c
By: Diane Benjamin Please note that Not In Our Town doesn’t care about hate speech from the left. It is a fraudulent organization created to stifle the right’s free speec
By: Diane Benjamin Tonight’s Agenda: https://bloomingtonil.portal.civicclerk.com/event/4107/files/agenda/15071 Nothing is on the Regular Agenda. Upcoming elections have a
By: Diane Benjamin Review this story: https://blnnews.com/2026/09/10/normal-locks-people-up-for-ordinance-violations/ Obviously Derek Riggs was booked into the McLean Cou
. Property Tax Crisis in Illinois Like a fierce thunderstorm with tornado-force winds, the property tax system in Illinois forces tax payers to take cover wherever they c
Maybe because he doesn’t want asked about his vote against this: Only 2 Democrats voted for it and are facing consequences of not voting NO as ordered. Map of the 17th Co
By: Diane Benjamin The population of the McLean County jail has been higher that usual for about the last week. The increase wasn’t related to a long holiday weekend. Thi
By: Diane Benjamin Below is an update to this story: https://blnnews.com/2022/12/08/id-love-to-hear-how-normal-police-explain-this-one/ I don’t believe the Normal police
By: Diane Benjamin We have AI—Grok, ChatGPT, etc. Ask them any question and you will get a far better answer than Google. Ask more than one if you have a complex question
By: Diane Benjamin This Labor Day celebrate local governments stealing your hard earned dollars. A home in Bloomington property tax history: . In 10 years, 2016 to 2025,
By: Diane Benjamin The first class by Carl Hinshaw teaching homeowners how to protest assessed values was well attended. Carl is doing it again. Whoever set your property
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