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Heading to the McLean County Fair? Here's what you need to know
Planning to hit the McLean County Fair? Here are some things you may want to know. When is the fair? The annual McLean County Fair, which bills itself as “the world’s largest county 4-H Show” runs through July 18 at the McLean County Fairgrounds, 1106 Interstate Drive in Bloomington. ...
90 years of the McLean County Fair
BLOOMINGTON (25News Now) - Funnel cakes and carnival rides are back on Interstate Drive in Bloomington for the McLean County Fair’s 90th summer. For five days, people will find a large carnival with multiple games and ride, classic fair food, horse shows, livestock competitions, barrel racing, and more. People will also get access to free entertainment every day when they buy a ticket.
Wind power can be a major source of tax revenue, but officials struggle to get communities on board
In Scott Saffer's science classroom, kids bake cookies in a decked-out kitchen, care for fish, turtles and a snake, and have access to a workshop full of tools. As the gifted enrichment coordinator at Tri-Point School District, Saffer is living his teaching dream, one he knew he'd need money to accomplish. For a while, due to budgetary concerns in rural Ford County, Illinois, he moved to a neighboring school district. But when wind turbines came to town, Tri-Point had the funding to bring him back without a pay cut. There, he was one of 10 recipients of a prestigious...
McHistory: 'Cousin Emmy' was a pioneer of country and roots music
Bloomington-Normal and McLean County are not really known as a cradle of country music. But there was this one time...in the 1930s. Cynthia May Carver, better known by her stage name “Cousin Emmy,” was a pioneer in country and roots music during the golden age of radio from the 1930s to the 1960s.
YouthBuild getting new open space from Lowe’s grant
MCLEAN COUNTY, Ill. (WMBD) — YouthBuild McLean County has some building going on, all thanks to the Lowe’s Hometowns Program. Youthbuild is a program for low-income youth and adolescents, where the kids are able to build, learn and develop skills for adulthood, and the Youthbuild location in Normal has an open space next to its building.
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