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Local News — Normal
- 1 killed, 7 others injured in shooting near Illinois Wesleyan University campus — WGLT
- Rivian grants interim CFO 125,000 stock unit award — CFO Dive
- Normal University (IL) Baseball — MaxPreps
- Sycamores Travel to Normal for MVC Showdown with Illinois State — Indiana State University Athletics
- Train Towns: Normal, Ill. — Amtrak Media
Normal is a town in McLean County, Illinois, United States. The population was 52,736 at the 2020 census. Normal is the smaller of the two principal cities of the Bloomington–Normal metropolitan area, and is Illinois’s seventh most populous community outside the Chicago metropolitan area. It is home to Illinois State University and Heartland Community College.
Founded in 1865, it was renamed Normal in 1867 after Illinois State Normal University (now Illinois State University), a normal school. Chris Koos has been the mayor of Normal since 2003.