County of McLean

• Citizen Judgesgroup of Volunteers to Monitor Mclean County Judges

A new category of visitors to McLean County courtrooms will judge the performance of local judges. Volunteers with the court observer program are easily spotted by their yellow clipboards, which carry a survey form rating everything from impartiality and temperament to demeanor and timeliness. The initiative, sponsored by the McLean County League of Women Voters, does not look at specific judicial decisions

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• April 15, 2011

• Michael Grosvenor Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Stephen Brienen, Individually and as Sheriff of the County of Mclean, John Foster, and Gordon Simpson, Defendants-Appellants., 801 F.2d 944 (7th Cir. 1986)

Daniel R. Simmons, Heyl Royster Voelker & Allen, Springfield, Ill., for defendants-appellants. H. Kent Heller, Naperville, Ill., for plaintiff-appell...

• Federal Circuits

• Reaching Out to Fill a Needsnap Goal Is to Expand Number of Food Recipients in Mclean County

BLOOMINGTON - About one in four McLean County residents eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits don't receive them. That's why Brittani Evans was at the St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry on Monday with a laptop computer, a portable printer, handouts and a helpful disposition. Evans is coordinator of the new McLean County SNAP Outreach, which is trying to get 5,000 or so eligible county residents to apply for SNAP benefits (formerly called food stamps).

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• March 25, 2011

• Y, It Matters. Ywca of Mclean County Turns 100

BLOOMINGTON - When the Rape Crisis Center was discontinuing services in 2002, the YWCA McLean County responded with Stepping Stones, which provides 24-hour assistance to survivors of sexual assault. When Lifeline went out of business in 2007, YWCA responded by taking over the Medivan service, which provides local residents with transportation to and from non-emergency medical appointments.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• September 23, 2008

• Mclean County Board Needs Balance of Experience, Fresh Ideas

Voters are fortunate to have a strong field of candidates vying for five contested seats on the McLean County Board in the Nov. 4 election. Many of the candidates already have extensive records of public service on the board or in other capacities.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• October 21, 2008

• Speaking Well of Historyeight Characters From Mclean County'spast Tell It Like It Was in Discovery Walk

BLOOMINGTON - How does a man go from being a larger-than-life Civil War soldier, a prominent business owner and mayor of Bloomington, to being indicted for aiding a prisoner in an escape and malfeasance in office? Only Daniel T. Foster knows the real answer, and he died in 1920. But for the past two weekends, his story - and those of seven other former McLean county residents - came to life as part of the Evergreen Cemetery Discovery Walk 2010.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• November 03, 2010

• Mclean County Avoidded the Worst of Recession in 2009

Any community or business anywhere in the country can tell you that 2009 wasn't the best year they have ever had. For everyone, sales and revenues were down. Whether a private business or unit of government, everyone saw a downturn in revenues. The bad news is even though McLean County tends to escape the worst of our country's recessions, there were very few places to hide this time and thus, the region took its share of lumps.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• March 23, 2010

• Jay Dee Jackson, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. County of Mclean, Steve Brenin, Gary Plonse, and David Goldberg, Defendants-Appellees., 953 F.2d 1070 (7th Cir. 1992)

Jerold S. Solovy, Louis Milicich (argued), Jenner & Block, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant. William A. Allison, Bloomington, Ill., (argued), f...

• Federal Circuits

• 100 Years of Memories Invitedspecial Events Set for Mclean County Tournament

If you have played, coached, officiated, led cheers or provided media coverage at the McLean County Basketball Tournament, organizers would like to see you during the 100th edition of the tournament. That is especially true on Jan. 21 and 22 at Illinois Wesleyan's Shirk Center for the final two nights of the weeklong tournament.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• January 19, 2011

• No Vacancy Mclean County Sheriff Looks to Tackle Long-Standing Issue of Jail Overcrowding

BLOOMINGTON - Too many inmates and too little space. It's an issue McLean County officials have wrestled with for more than a decade. Sheriff Mike Emery inherited an overcrowded jail when he took office in 2006, but the lengthy stay of well-known inmate Jeffrey Pelo was the catalyst for Emery to start another dialogue with county and criminal justice leaders on the population issue.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• February 24, 2009