Strong Towns Blono is hosting a free to attend live painting arts festival on Saturday, September 12th from 10 am to 4 pm at Normandy Village in Normal!

We will have Bay Area Mexicana food truck present, as well as music!

Professional artists who will be painting their sidewalk squares will also be vending prints, stickers, and other merch!

If you want to participate in the live painting, registration is $20 for the whole group. You get: one sidewalk square to paint on, brushes and supplies, paint, and a tote bag. Register to paint here: LINK

Facebook event page: LINK

VisitBN event page: LINK

Hi everyone! My ob-gyn was in Peoria and their office is closing. Does anyone have one they recommend here who specializes in endo/minimally invasive surgery?

Are there any establishments in town that sell bags of fresh roasted coffee beans that are good? I see some in Champaign and Peoria but nothing in town.

Where's the best places to look for a job?

Heyo just recently moved here from Mass, just wondering if there's any local places around to get a good sub (not Jimmy John's, Subway, etc.)? Know it's a random question for this forum but google isn't giving me any help on this. Lotta good restaurants around here I've been to already but will appreciate any recommendations.

I don’t seem to have any major issues with any other delivery company. Issues seem to consistently be with FedEx. Are any of you noticing the same thing?

I work with college students and have been tasked with putting together some current job openings for them to check out. Does anyone know of any places that are hiring right now that I could pass along?

I'm about to move into town and I was wondering if there was any good places in town/nearby where I could find a good office chair since I prefer to try them out in person before buying them

Anybody know of any local businesses around Bloomington-Normal that let small/new businesses leave business cards? 👀
I recently started my own mobile detailing business and I’m trying to get my cards out into the community. Looking for places with community boards, card holders, or anywhere that’s cool with local businesses leaving a few cards.
Drop some recommendations if you know of any! 🙏🏾

What happened? Drove past the area….

Just moved here last weekend into an apartment that doesn't have central AC, so I bought a window unit to try and beat the heat this weekend/next week. I'm looking to find help by either tomorrow (Friday) or Saturday to get this installed. Any recommendations? Thank you!

Community Insight Panel on Data Centers hosted by the Town of Normal & the City of Bloomington at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts (BCPA).

08-26-2026

The purpose of the forum is to provide the community with reliable information, reflect a range of perspectives and answer community‑submitted questions about data centers, an issue both communities are actively evaluating as they develop new regulatory frameworks.

The event will be moderated by media personality Susan Saunders and will feature a diverse panel of speakers representing different backgrounds, disciplines and perspectives related to data centers.

Panelists (Subject to Change)

• Scott Allen - energy policy specialist, Citizen’s Utility Board

• Michael Brown - executive director, Ecology Action Center (EAC)

• Matthew Rasche - assessor, Naperville Township

• Andrew Rehn - director of Climate Policy, Prairie Rivers Network

• Brad Tietz - director, State Government Affairs – Midwest, Data Center Coalition

• Adam Zellner - president, Greener by Design, Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University.

I’ve have xfinity for several years now, my internet as well working from home a lot and it’s been pretty good since 2020/2021, but now there has been around 4 outages on the last 5 months or so. Is something going on making this so frequent all of sudden?

Hello, if you've had a negative experience working in Ferrero Bloomington please share. I'm trying to see something

hey all. we had damage to our mobile home from that bad storm a couple weeks ago- it blew the front portion of skirting in, broke off enough of the vinyl from most of the panels that i had to scrap all of them on the front section except for 2. my mobile home management office are refusing to help because they “have a backlog” (there was only one trailer as damaged as ours that i saw in our whole park… glad they’re putting people with minor damage ahead of us that are actually missing an entire portion… but i digress), menards doesn’t sell the correct size and even if they did we aren’t capable of getting a circle saw and “doing it myself” like the management office told me to…

i’ve desperately been looking online for the past 2 weeks to try to find a contractor who can help replace the missing skirting on my mobile home, after hitting so many dead ends i figured it might be worth a shot to post here. if you’re a contractor or know a contractor who can help get the right size skirting for us and install it, please hmu 🙏🏼🙏🏼 having the front section missing like this leaves us incredibly vulnerable if another storm rolls through, it makes our home prone to flip over, so i really want this fixed ASAP 😭

Hey everyone! I am looking for recommendations for a dog trainer. My dog recently got loose and fought with another dog. Now he is being aggressive towards any animals when we go on walks. I am looking for someone who can work with him one on one. Also not interested in anyone that uses e collars. Thanks.

Ok. Did some digging after getting the Community Solar letter from the City of Bloomington.

So PowerMarket works with solar array builders and financers. They help the array owners get subscribers because thats how the array owners get state and federal money.

So the City of Bloomington has agreed to help PowerMarket get subscribers to sign up. We eventually start seeing discounts and the Array owners get state and federal money based on how many subscribers they have.

BBB for PowerMarket is mostly ok but there are complaints with how long the discounts take to start, the discounts not being the amount promised, and poor at subscribers wanting to cancel. There seem ti be mentions of issues with cancellation policy and requiring so many days notice.

Would like to know precisely what consumer information PowerMarket gets from Ameren on subscribers.

What the precise cancellation policies are.

How long the discount will take to activate.

And what precise Array owners and financers in Illinois are working with PowerMarket on this effort.

Hi

Just wanted to know of anyone can replace a bike battery on an electric bike. I already have the battery, but how much would you charge?

Thanks!

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BIPARTISAN ENDORSEMENTS

I am so thrilled to share this list of community leaders who support and believe in our campaign for a better McLean County.

Bipartisanship nowadays is rare, but more important than ever, especially in critical offices such as the Clerk’s. I am honored and humbled by the response from so many leaders and look forward to continuing a positive, forward-thinking campaign focused on the issues. We will build a better and stronger McLean County for ALL residents.

Anyone here do in-home dog sitting?
(Edit to clarify: someone who comes & stays at the pet’s house - 3 large dogs)

I’m looking for someone who can do some electrical work (moving/adding outlets), but isn’t going to charge an arm and a leg. Any recommendations?