WGLT's Sound Ideas
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Sound Ideas is WGLT's 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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A Chicago-based nonprofit advocating for people living with criminal records is branching out, with its first chapter launching in the Bloomington-Normal area. Fully Free BloNo chapter hosts a kickoff party 3 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at Bloomington's Miller Park. -
The Bloomington-Normal Area Convention and Visitors Bureau has received a $150,000 state tourism grant to further restore Sprague’s Super Service in Normal ahead of Route 66's 100th anniversary next year. -
Nancy and Ben Pounds' Bloomington yard is featured as part of a 10-home garden tour benefiting the David Davis Mansion. -
Tuesday was the first day colleges and universities can make direct payments to student-athletes. This stems from a settlement in a landmark case involving student compensation. Illinois State University Athletics Director Jeri Beggs called it the most dramatic change ever seen in college sports. -
For the first time, the City of Bloomington is regulating an industry that it says has been a source for sex trafficking and other illicit behavior. Two massage therapists share their views on the new regulations. -
This term’s Supreme Court decision that allows states to ban gender-affirming healthcare for adolescent transgender minors is causing fear, frustration, and resolve in the LGBTQ+ community in Bloomington-Normal. -
WGLT found three business owners and nonprofit organizations that charted their own unique paths toward expanding child care capacity in the area. They’ve all opened, or will soon open, this year. -
The court’s conservative majority determined that judges can't issue a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump's executive orders. The high court largely set aside whether the president actually can ban automatic citizenship for children born in the U.S. -
Ecology Action Center in Normal is bringing back a program to McLean County that offers residents solar panel installation below market cost. The program also available to DeWitt County residents is a group buy program called the Grow Solar Initiative. -
The draft of a new McLean County Land Use Plan suggests future growth will largely happen on the fringes of Bloomington and Normal.
