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2022-02-18

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.

2022-02-18

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5 min
2025-01-03

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.

2025-01-03

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7 min
2020-02-26

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.

2020-02-26

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7 min
2024-05-14

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.

2024-05-14

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10 min
2024-06-20

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.

2024-06-20

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7 min
2024-02-08

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.

2024-02-08

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24 min
2025-10-29

McHistory: Homelessness and Hoboes

There's a declaration of emergency over the number of unhoused people in Bloomington right now, and efforts to provide new housing and expanded space in shelters. The issue is not new, though the response today is perhaps more humane than it was in other eras. Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2025-10-29

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7 min
9 juni

'You don't forget your friends': Summit of Hope in Bloomington gives community members a 2nd chance

Summit of Hope, a community-driven exposition and resource fair, held its 152nd state gathering Tuesday at the Interstate Center in Bloomington. Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

9 juni

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4 min
12 maj

Rep. Sorensen questions Hegseth about Rock Island layoffs, voiding union contracts

U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen isn’t satisfied with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's answers about military layoffs in his Central Illinois district. Sorensen questioned Hegseth about the decision to cut up to 150 jobs at Rock Island Arsenal during a hearing held by the House Armed Services Committee on April 29. Support the show: https://donate.nprstations.org/wglt/wglt-choose-donation See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

12 maj

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4 min
2022-01-12

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.

2022-01-12

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6 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

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: Homelessness and Hoboes

'You don't forget your friends': Summit of Hope in Bloomington gives community members a 2nd chance

Rep. Sorensen questions Hegseth about Rock Island layoffs, voiding union contracts

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

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