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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Illinois State University is trying to revive a stalled dorm and dining center project. It also wants to put a solar farm on the land, roofs, and maybe parking structures at its College of Engineering campus on GE Road in Bloomington. -
Some McLean County Board members are criticizing Health Department inspectors over how they address the presence of beverages containing CBD or THC additives. The situation has already caused on again, off again enforcement on hemp-derived drinks. -
Illinois Farm Bureau delegates have rejected a new term for Illinois Farm Bureau [IFB] President Brian Duncan. At the IFB annual meeting in Chicago, nearly 57% of the delegates chose Philip Nelson of Seneca, a former IFB president and state agriculture director, as the organization’s 17th president. -
Una organización de ciberdelincuencia ha violado un sistema utilizado por el Town of Normal para enviar avisos de emergencia y de eventos a los suscriptores. -
The latest missive on the dispute between the City of Bloomington, Town of Normal, and McLean County over how the county government handles shared sales tax money includes a vigorous defense of previous allegations against the county and proffers a reciprocal olive branch. -
El miembro más antiguo del Normal Town Council dice que hay algo que falta en el debate sobre el cierre de la estación de bomberos de College Avenue cuando una nueva estación del lado este se abra en un par de meses. -
A cybercrime organization has breached a system used by the Town of Normal to send out emergency and event notices to subscribers.
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The senior member of the Normal Town Council says there's something missing in debate over closing the College Avenue fire station when a new east side station opens in a couple months.
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Una gran parte de los consejeros y trabajadores sociales en McLean County acaban de recibir capacitación en un modelo de terapia en auge que puede ayudar a las personas a superar la ansiedad, la depresión y el TEPT (Trastorno de Estrés Postraumático). Se llama Desensibilización y Reprocesamiento por Movimiento Ocular, o EMDR. -
The structure of college classes will have to change in an AI world. That's according to Roy Magnuson, the director of the newly created Adaptive Edge Institute at Illinois State University. The institute studies new technologies and how they influence teaching. Right now, that's Generative AI.
