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WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know to start your day for Monday, May 10, 2021. You'll hear about ISU's Board of Trustees taking next steps toward a new engineering college.

Cars connect to phones all the time now and Normal City Manager Pam Reece says that has implications, having emergency vehicles talk to traffic signals, for instance. Hear how Normal plans to be a smart city. Plus Dewitt County has a new wind farm under construction. There's more about that and the wind power industry. And in past decades McLean County Board redistricting has been a quiet exercise controlled by the dominant Republican party. This year there are enough Democrats on the board to make it a very noisy process indeed.

An escaped slave with a central Illinois connection grabbed the colors from a falling comrade and charged the cannons in a Civil War battle. Hear how Andy Jackson Smith won the Medal of Honor more than a century after his bravery. Sen. Dick Durbin comes to Normal to push for electric vehicle infrastructure as part of the Democratic party effort to build support for the Biden jobs and infrastructure bill. And the Illinois House Speaker and Republican leader talk about the state budget.

Jim Browne talks with Alfred Lopez, a Cuba scholar who has written a book on Jose Marti’, a Cuban revolutionary and contemporary of Abraham Lincoln. Lopez…

Hear about progress that's been made in the thirty years since "Life CIL" opened its doors in Bloomington, helping people with disabilities gain work and…

Many Mitsubishi plant workers have no idea what will happen to them now that the plant is closing.Longtime plant worker Mick Hannah is thinking about his…

Global Warming has been a hot topic thanks to the global summit in Paris. Rising water temperatures are a concern that often take a backseat to air…

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars shocked the world with a new cultural phenomenon that is returning to the limelight with the release…

Thousands of children in Bloomington-Normal will be changing the way they get to school starting in the Fall. Unit 5 is trying to cut a million dollars…

Valentine’s Day is a time for love, but a County Financial advisor says couples should use the day to discuss their finances. Laura Kennedy talks with a…