On today's episode, Bloomington's city manager says he doesn't intend to micromanage the police department after BPD pulled out of an immigration event, McLean County's top election officer pushes back on unfounded claims about mail-in voting, a farmer and government official in northwest Illinois makes a bid for U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen's seat and a Bloomington blacksmith wins a History Channel competition.

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