Former U.S. Senator and two time candidate for Governor Adlai Stevenson II has died at age 90. Listen to archival sound of Stevenson reading the words of his father, another member of the Bloomington founded political dynasty. A half century ago the New School started in Bloomington as an alternative education model. Fifty years on the Mulberry School still teaches children how to learn instead of what they should learn. Emory knows what it means to be an unwanted child. Easton says the book came screaming out of her cortex as an effort to get it out and stop blackening her soul. Hear about the healing power of writing. And the Mayor of Normal drops by.
WGLT Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker has spent more than three award-winning decades in radio. He lives in Normal with his family.