WGLT's Sound Ideas
Weekdays 5-5:30 p.m.
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.
Transcripts are available in the Apple Podcasts app, inside each episode.
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In his first solo gallery show, artist Trevor Basham departs from his typical style inspired by American Traditional tattooing. "Hardcore Bubblegum" leans New School. -
The Baby Fold's early childhood mental health consultants help child care providers across Livingston, McLean, Ford and DeWitt counties with social-emotional learning. -
While a strike may be novel at ISU, academic work stoppages are happening more and more often around the country. Strikes at other campuses give ISU a window into what to expect if it happens here. -
Bloomington High School's principal says cell phones are to blame for a lot of student disciplinary and academic concerns. -
This is Part 3 of a series of stories about the mayoral election in Bloomington. Election Day is April 1. -
At the first-of-its-kind fundraiser game for the Humane Society of Central Illinois, adoptable dogs and more than 100 pet dogs came out to see the Bloomington Bison hockey team. -
Music industry expert and Public Image Ltd drummer Martin Atkins is coming to University Galleries to give a free public talk about Chicago’s music ecosystem. -
Whoever takes Bloomington's top job will still have to contend with the issues of a housing shortage and an uptick in the number of unhoused people in the city — though aid to both issues is currently in the works. -
Lexington's Upstairs Bookstore is full of things Nick Rynerson likes — including his new poetry bookThe lifelong McLean County resident wrote a collection of poems over the course of a year, detailing the beauty and nuance of life in Central Illinois. -
Incumbent Mayor Mboka Mwilambwe, first-term city council member Cody Hendricks and 22-year former Republican state Rep. Dan Brady are all in the running for Bloomington's top job.
