URBANA — Officials will convene a public forum on Thursday (May 17) to inform locals about a pending application for a landfill in Clinton to bury chemical waste at a site above the Mahomet Aquifer, the source of central Illinois' drinking water.

The meeting is scheduled from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the auditorium at the Beckman Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., U.