Charlie Schlenker
Senior ReporterWGLT Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker grew up in Rock Island, Illinois, and graduated from Augustana College. He has spent more than four decades in radio and has won numerous state and national awards for journalism. He lives in Normal with his family.
Contact Charlie at ceschle@ilstu.edu.
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Farmland owners who want to sell their acreage are holding back this fall, compared with this time last year — while land prices have declined slightly. -
As the Trump administration sends National Guard soldiers to Chicago, a half dozen Illinois State University students have been called to active duty this week. -
If you enjoy humor found in unusual places ... if you enjoy sorting through public documents ... if you enjoy bluegrass music, then this show might just be for you. It's called "FOIA Love." -
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told a crowd of about 1,200 people at Illinois Wesleyan University on Monday night that Bloomington-Normal favorite son Adlai Stevenson II was her commencement speaker the year she graduated college. -
Another approved use of money is to replace an aging electronic record management system that integrates information for the courts, law enforcement, and other McLean County stakeholders. There has been a lot of unhappiness about that project too. -
In this glued-to-your-phone era of technological isolation from our fellow human beings, one creative person is turning to old tech to help people reconnect and spread joy and a little art. As part of our ongoing feature series More of That, Please, we bring you the story of typewriter poetry. -
The final tally of job cuts at the Bridgestone Firestone plant in Normal is less than first thought. And United Steelworkers Union Local 787 President Jason Beckett said it does not involve layoffs. -
The top academic officer and CFO at Illinois State University are asking the campus to have patience in the face of the federal government shutdown. -
In Part 3 of our weeklong series about local manufacturing, WGLT visits a Bloomington company that serves both farms and the armed forces with made-to-order circuit boards. -
Cuando se aprobó por primera vez la anulación estatal del impuesto a los comestibles compartido localmente, el entonces alcalde Mboka Mwilambwe no creía que hubiera interés en el Concejo Municipal de Bloomington para imponer un impuesto local. Aunque la votación siguió dividida, el Concejo finalmente aprobó el impuesto esta semana.
