Here's your local news at a glance for Saturday, the 25th of July.
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💼 Business
United Airlines has delayed its return to Bloomington’s Central Illinois Regional Airport until at least 2027 (FAA limits at O'Hare impose capacity constraints).
🎭 Culture
Lyla Mev, a local miniature painter with nearly 140,000 YouTube subscribers, appears in WGLT’s Maker to Maker series + she shares simple painting tips and competition insights.
She is preparing her next contest piece for October and will take the week before off to focus on it.
🎓 Education
ISU's board approved a new $600.4M operating budget that projects a surplus and 3% merit raises for about 1,550 (nonunion) staff effective Oct.
1, and approved $3.2M to repair storm-damaged campus buildings. The board also granted an additional administrative day off for faculty on Nov. 25.
🏥 Health
McLean County’s FUSE program, launched in 2019 to support mental health and substance use recovery, shows promising results as participants experience fewer jail bookings and DUI charges while receiving wrap-around care (including therapists, case managers, and a nurse) that provides food, IDs, and transportation.
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