State money will flow to Bloomington Normal healthcare providers to lower barriers to care for people on Medicaid and other underserved populations. Chestnut Health Systems says it's fund electronic monitoring, a dental clinic, telehealth, and other services. It is possible to build unity even in a fractured society. Hear from a Bloomington Normal NAACP speaker. Olivia Haerr started a bass fishing team at University High School in Normal to help take her to her 'happy place.' It took her three years to get the Athletic Department on board. Finding faculty coaches was the easy part. A lot of them fish already. And Grand opera comes to a garden and a theater in Bloomington Normal.
WGLT Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker has spent more than three award-winning decades in radio. He lives in Normal with his family.