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Jan 2, 2025 · Ready aimed to give Nurse Ratched humanity, despite the play revealing very little about what contributes to her hardened exterior. The script is intentionally vague about her backstory — fodder for Glee and American Horror Story producer Ryan Murphy and Evan Romansky’s imagination in Netflix’s Ratched.. The jury is out as to whether or not it’s productive to know more about her (the ...

Jan 4, 2025 · The McLean County Regional Planning Commission says the design of Veterans Parkway is outdated, and the commission is studying how it might be different.. The parkway cuts off access by modes other than motor vehicles. “It is not safe,” said commission transportation planner Jennifer Sicks.

WGLT will host three events in one night ahead of the election. A candidate open house and two mayoral forums will take place Tuesday, March 4, from 5-8 p.m. at Illinois State University's Bone Student Center Brown Ballroom.

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Jan 3, 2025 · Drier winds will hinder the northward movement of this weekend's winter storm, the National Weather Service in Lincoln said. Snowfall is still expected to hit the McLean, Tazewell, Woodford and Peoria county areas later today, though earlier projections indicated snow would begin falling in the morning.

Jan 4, 2025 · The first weekend of 2025 is having the coldest air of the season, according to the National Weather Service. The first significant winter storm of the year will impact 62 million people through the weekend and into Monday. Heavy snow, ice, rain and severe thunderstorms will be unleashed from the ...

5 days ago · It's early hours into the investigation into what caused the midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and an Army Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday night just outside Washington, D.C. It will be some time before investigators can offer clear answers, but air traffic controller audio and radar reviewed by NPR offer some insight into the minutes before and immediately after the ...

Oct 17, 2024 · A homeless encampment near downtown Bloomington that started growing around a year ago in an overflow parking lot is no longer. By end of day Oct. 15, the roughly 35 unsheltered community members who’d been staying there left and all signs of the encampment — tents, pallets, personal belongings — were gone.