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18.02.2022

McHistory: Multitalented suffrage leader promoted women’s health and the vote

Ellen Ferguson was a champion of women and women's suffrage. She made Bloomington-Normal her home in the 1870s.Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

18.02.2022

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5 min
11.08.2021

McHistory: Rags the Dog, The Illinois Traction System Mascot

McHistory is a co-production of WGLT and the McLean County Museum of History.Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

11.08.2021

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5 min
03.01.2025

Courting and calling on New Year's Day

Human beings have marked the turning of the year with many different traditions over thousands of years. Some practices have fallen out of favor. Today, American society celebrates on New Year’s Eve, and not New Year's Day, though this was not always the case. Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03.01.2025

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7 min
26.02.2020

McHistory: 19th Century Cabbie Saw All Of Bloomington-Normal Society

Here is a profile of a man who drove vice presidents and governors, wealthy landowners, visiting artists, and the prominent of Bloomington-Normal all about town more than a century ago.Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

26.02.2020

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7 min
14.05.2024

Episode 9: ISU Democrats and Republicans make joint push for expanded voting access on Election Day

Members of both the Democrat and Republican parties on campus want ISU leaders to close the campus on Election Day on November 5. They issued a joint statement asking the university to make the change, citing long lines that have become common on election days at ISU. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

14.05.2024

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10 min
20.06.2024

The last legal MLB spitballer pitched in Bloomington

Hall of Fame pitcher Burleigh Grimes was the last major league pitcher to legally throw a spitball. Grimes played with seven different major league teams, though mostly with the Dodgers and Cardinals. He retired in 1934, the year before he came to Bloomington. Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

20.06.2024

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7 min
08.02.2024

Episode 2: How a young person's political views can transform over time

Illinois State University students Chloe Yost and Steven Lazaroff are featured in Episode 2 of the Democracy's Future podcast, produced by WGLT and The Vidette. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

08.02.2024

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24 min
12.01.2022

McHistory: A Bloomington huckster's best-selling 'medicine' was Blackberry Balsam

Bloomington-Normal has a long and distinguished history of business entrepreneurship. One less than distinguished, but very successful, business, had a continent-wide spread in the late 1800s.Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12.01.2022

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6 min
15.10.2024

Episode 15: An interview with state Rep. Sharon Chung

In the most recent episode of Democracy's Future, we hear from Sharon Chung, the Democratic representative for Illinois’ 91st district, as she campaigns for re-election. That district includes parts of Bloomington-Normal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

15.10.2024

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36 min
27.09.2023

McHistory: Life, literature and children

It's cliche but children are the future. Bloomington's Clara Louise Kessler passionately lived that. She went by Louise. Kessler got her start as a kindergarten teacher on Bloomington's west side and went on to serve more than three decades as a children's librarian who tried to foster and fulfill the literary and creative needs of young people. Kessler also became a published lyricist for more than 50 children's songs. Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

27.09.2023

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7 min

WGLT is the NPR member-station in Bloomington-Normal, IL. A public service of Illinois State University.

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McHistory: Multitalented suffrage leader promoted women’s health and the vote

McHistory: Rags the Dog, The Illinois Traction System Mascot

Courting and calling on New Year's Day

McHistory: 19th Century Cabbie Saw All Of Bloomington-Normal Society

Episode 9: ISU Democrats and Republicans make joint push for expanded voting access on Election Day

The last legal MLB spitballer pitched in Bloomington

Episode 2: How a young person's political views can transform over time

McHistory: A Bloomington huckster's best-selling 'medicine' was Blackberry Balsam

Episode 15: An interview with state Rep. Sharon Chung

McHistory: Life, literature and children

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