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Many unions have had trouble getting and keeping members. The Laborers union in central Illinois is not one of them with a record high membership of 500,000 people. There is a shortage of young women in technical fields that State Farm wants to help fill. If Samsung locates its electric vehicle battery plant in Normal it will need water to make precursors to make lithium oxides and as the solvent to make graphite electrodes. Hear what else goes into that industrial process. And an ISU graduate fulfils a family legacy disrupted by 1920s racial discrimination.

Commentator Peter Loge has some fun with President Bush's suggestion that the South Lawn of the White House be used as a t-ball field.

Illinois State University is trying to revive a stalled dorm and dining center project. It also wants to put a solar farm on the land, roofs, and maybe parking structures at its College of Engineering campus on GE Road in Bloomington.

Thousands of Corvettes will fill the Illinois State University campus this weekend as Bloomington Gold returns to its hometown for its 50th anniversary.

The Illinois High School Association says the return of the state football finals to Normal was a success. The finals have been held over the last 25 years at the University of Illinois and Northern Illinois University, before returning to Hancock Stadium this year.

Country Financial is partnering with the Heartland Community College Foundation to help underrepresented high school students jump start their college…

Renewed talk of a multisport complex in Bloomington-Normal has offered hope to organizers of various sports that they would be able to play year-round and…

Scott talks to Peppy Fields, a live radio-show host in South Florida. After 36 years on the air, the last "Peppy Fields House Party" airs Sunday night (midnight) on WFAT-am. The Miami Beach station is changing formats and is forced to cancel her show.

The San Antonio coach will try to set the record for most coaching wins on Wednesday.

Former Vice President Al Gore announces he won't seek the White House in 2004. That leaves the race for the Democratic nomination for president wide open, and the focus shifts to other Democrats considering a presidential campaign. NPR's Mara Liasson reports.