Watch now: McLean County foodborne illness outbreak being investigated - Bloomington Pantagraph

The issue was brought to the agency's attention on April 7 by Illinois State University personnel after people reported symptoms consistent with food poisoning, the department said. .

The Twin Cities today have dozens of pizza ovens at countless pizza restaurants.

But do you know the locale of the very first Twin City pizza oven.

With more than a dozen McDonald's restaurants now in the greater Bloomington-Normal area, you'd definitely say the restaurant is fully entrenched. When the first B–N McDonald's at Main Street and Beaufort opened in 1959, that was the beginning.

In the late 1970s, the corporation chose Gibson City as the site of the very first "Mini-Mac," a restaurant half the size of a conventional McDonald's. ?

For its population, McLean County has one of the highest concentrations of chain restaurants in the country, according to Restaurant Business Magazine.

Bloomington-Normal is famous for its love of dining out, a fact verified by national statistics that each year rank the Twin Cities among the nation’s top 50 cities in the U.S.

Do you know how much money we actually spend in a year in food and/or beverage at Twin City restaurants, pubs and bars.

The first Buffalo Wild Wings in town, on Empire Street across from the Central Illinois Regional Airport, at one point was the second busiest Buffalo Wild Wings in Illinois and among the top 25 in the U.S.

One Bloomington-Normal restaurant includes on its staff two television stars: Epiphany Farms, the downtown restaurant along Front Street.

Kennedy visited the Twin Cities as a campaign stop in October 1959