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WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021. You'll hear the latest on the coronavirus in McLean County. Plus, you'll learn about a new task force focused on local news in Illinois.

State Farm will host the one-day virtual Tech Astra summit Oct. 2, for girls in fourth through eighth grade. The summit aims to educate students about opportunities in the STEM fields.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. You'll hear the latest on the coronavirus in local schools. Plus, Jon Norton reflects on how music changed after the Twin Towers fell.

Backyard Tire Fire's new album drops Friday. They perform at the Black Dirt Music Festival in Bloomington on Saturday. Wilco headlines the fest.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. You'll hear the voices of a new 9/11 exhibit opening at the Normal Public Library. Plus, a Datebook preview of a Community Players Theatre play.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. You'll hear about the start of commercial production at Rivian. Plus, an interview with Unit 5's superintendent.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. You'll hear about the rise in COVID cases among school-aged children in McLean County. Plus, learn about Destihl's newly award-winning beer.

It's a big day for Rivian. The electric vehicle maker has produced its first truck at the assembly facility in Normal actually made for sale to a customer. And with plant employment climbing, the impact to the economy is rising too. The Unit 5 School District has had a bump in COVID cases and quarantines...in particular at Parkside Junior High. The Superintendent says a lot of those exposures happened outside school. Wet weather and warm nights early in the summer left central Illinois corn farmers fighting fungus this year. Now it's too dry. Hear about the impact on the harvest.

Questions swirl around the shootings of six people in Normal. Three dead. Three seriously hurt. McLean County Mom's Demand Action for Gun Sense says even if you know none of those involved, such horrific incidents create collective community trauma. Some court cases seem like they will never end. Three decades-old murder cases from McLean County are returning to the courtroom this year. The pandemic has brought a lot of consideration about work and life and some people are making changes. There's an increase in the number of central Illinois carpenters apprentices. And find out what tomorrow's roads will look like.