WGLT's Sound Ideas
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Sound Ideas is WGLT's signature local news series. Every weekday, WGLT reporters go beyond soundbites for deeper conversations with newsmakers, musicians, artists, and anyone with a story to share. New episodes air throughout the day on WGLT.
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WGLT interviewed a dozen Central Illinois residents about how gas prices are impacting their lives – including teen drivers, young professionals, longtime food-delivery drivers and commuters.
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A Bloomington-Normal native who’s become one of its leading bankers is optimistic about the local economy, but also sees opportunity for collaboration across the community — including on “transformational projects” on some prime pieces of real estate.
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McLean County and Central Illinois are gearing up for America 250 with a bunch of events, everything from a community drone show on July 2 to readings of the Declaration of Independence at Connie Link Amphitheater in Normal and in Downtown Bloomington. It's not the first national anniversary involving a big celebration. Let’s go back 50 years to hear what they did for the nation’s Bicentennial.
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A new athletics space, three agriculture classrooms and a new home for the unit office are included in the project.
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When the World Cup soccer tournament begins Thursday, a Central Illinois congressman will see nine years of work begin to pay off.
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The book, Pilot’s Drive for Autonomy: The Neurodynamic Navigator System, provides a guide to children diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance [PDA], a subtype of autism.
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An inaugural plane pull event raised thousands of dollars for Special Olympics Illinois Saturday.
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Billions of dollars in wind farm projects all over Illinois are on hold, including two projects in McLean County, two in Peoria County, and one in Tazewell County.
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Mayor Chris Koos said he’s pleased the firefighters’ union is willing to have conversations about the fire service, and the future of the department outside of collective bargaining with the town.
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John Burroughs, whose account of the Rendlesham Forest incident helped make it one of the world's most famous UFO cases, is bringing a UFO conference to Bloomington and will discuss his decades-long effort to obtain medical benefits for health challenges related to the event.