Losing a job can be an opportunity, especially for retail and restaurant workers who are the main target of layoffs right now in Bloomington Normal. Ryan Denham talks with a business service representative and trades planner at Career Link in Normal who says there are 900 fewer retail jobs than last year in Bloomington Normal. Plus, the history of Sibley Illinois includes once being the center of perhaps the nation's largest farm. Jon Norton gives us the music of Cracker. Theater leads to lasting love. A Next to Normal story slam story with correspondent Breanna Grow. And deciding when to try to save and when to cut down a long established tree in your yard, during GLT's Grow.
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