WGLT's Sound Ideas
Weekdays 5-5:30 p.m.
WGLT's Sound Ideas is our flagship news program. Every weekday, WGLT reporters go beyond soundbites for deeper conversations with newsmakers, musicians, artists, and anyone with a story to share.
This 30-minute newsmagazine is produced Monday through Friday.
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Latest Episodes
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Nurses caring for COVID patients must grieve their losses, over and over again. -
The Illinois Symphony returns to the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts on Jan. 28 with its latest concert, “Incredibly Italian.” The program features works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Schumann, three composers who weren’t exactly Italian but drew inspiration from the bel paese.
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McLean County saw a decline in the number of eviction filings in the final two months of last year, soon after evictions were allowed to resume.
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Nearly two years into the pandemic, students are still confronting uncertainties. That's especially true on college campuses where COVID has fundamentally changed the university experience.
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Rick Nielsen is making up for family time lost during while touring with Cheap Trick back in the day with the band he, his sons Daxx and Miles, and Miles’ wife Kelly Steward formed called The Nielsen Trust.
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Heartland Community College has typically used contract workers to provide security on its campuses. The establishment of a new public safety department means that the college will employs its security staff directly, although structural details are still being finalized.
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Craig and Ken Hart-Rohlfs are navigating the adoption process, hoping to be connected to a birth mother.
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Central Illinois U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood met with staff at a rural hospital on Friday to hear their frustrations about staffing challenges during the pandemic.
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An Illinois Wesleyan women's basketball player took time to work on her other passion after she wasn't able to play basketball last year when the coronavirus pandemic shortened the season.
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Four comedy writers will perform Jan. 29 at the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts, as part of “The Daily Show Writers Comedy Tour.”
