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ROANOKE — The village of Roanoke will change a decades-old procedure of how it approves special-use permits after being advised to do so by village attorney Scott Brunton.

BLOOMINGTON — A semitrailer truck overturned Monday afternoon on West Market Street near Interstate 55, reducing traffic to a single lane, according to Bloomington police.

EUREKA — The Eureka City Council is wondering whether people want to look at lilacs or a new view of Eureka Lake.

ATLANTA — Firefighters from eight Central Illinois departments are battling a fire that destroyed two mobile homes Monday morning in Atlanta.

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NORMAL — A community campaign to help businesses, the service industry and community organizations better understand and work with people with autism has experienced success that will be celebrated this weekend.

BLOOMINGTON — Forty-five McLean County women have been nominated for the YWCA Woman of Distinction Awards, which will be presented May 22 at the 29th annual Women of Distinction Awards Banquet.

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BLOOMINGTON — When Gregg Brown saw a flyer about an event to raise awareness of cannabis and cannabis patients, he immediately made plans to go. Brown, of Bloomington, even brought a homemade sign to Sunday’s Central Illinois Cannabis Community Walk…

Fifty years ago this week — April 27, 1968 — Bloomington officials held a groundbreaking ceremony for the city’s second lake. On that day, Mayor Robert McGraw also announced the name of this new $5 million, 700-acre, 4.2 billion gallon…