Update to this story: https://blnnews.com/2025/10/29/derek-s-lopez-arrest-details/ By: Diane Benjamin Derek Lopez, the guy who flipped the Turning Point USA table at ISU, was arrested again: https://blnnews.com/2025/10/22/derek-lopez-confession/ Lopez lives in El Paso which is in Woodford County. No other information is available. He might only be in custody because he hasn’t appeared before a judge yet, I […]
By: Diane Benjamin The local employment stats in this story were from March: https://blnnews.com/2024/05/20/stats-you-needs-to-see/ April statistics are now out: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-lags-as-8-of-13-illinois-metro-areas-add-jobs-in-april/ Some cities in Illinois gained jobs, Bloomington continued to lose them. Meanwhile the County just west of us thinks your tax dollars shouldn’t be spent on migrants in the country illegally: https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2024-05-22/woodford-county-declared-non-sanctuary-for-undocumented-migrants Evidently the far […]
See this story on the Edgar County Watchdog’s website: https://edgarcountywatchdogs.com/2020/04/woodford-county-states-attorney-will-not-prosecute-gov-pritzkers-extended-stay-at-home-order/ What other State’s Attorneys will join him?
By: Diane Benjamin The Justin Barr saga began when I received a tip about his arrest in Will County. I did this story: https://blnnews.com/2019/01/12/lexington-guy-arrested-in-joliet-he-has-history-here/ People claiming to be victims of Barr’s started appearing everywhere! Many could not get justice through the courts because their State’s Attorneys believed these cases should be civil instead of criminal. […]
By: Diane Benjamin A Bloomington Fire Fighter was arrested in Woodford County on January 11th. The information below is available on judici.com The incident involved a second Bloomington Firefighter. Since he wasn’t arrested I’m not going to use his name. The incident took place in Kappa according to my sources. (use your imagination where, there […]
By: Diane Benjamin What does the Economic Development Council do? Here’s their website: https://www.bnbiz.org/ They have dinners and lunches, organize the One Voice trips to DC to beg for federal funds, and soak up a lot of money from both Bloomington and Normal. Last year McLean County budgeted $100,000 for the EDC. For 2018 they dropped […]
