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The sounds of great music will once again bounce around Uptown Normal as Make Music Normal returns after a one-year COVID hiatus.

Most of the critical care COVID-19 patients in McLean County hospitals are younger and sicker than earlier, though none are kids. Yes, they are largely unvaccinated. And ISU's new multicultural center is open for business. Hear how it's increasing diversity and cultural awareness on campus. It takes a lot to get 11 murder trials through McLean County in a year even in the best of times, these aren't. And the history and contemporary culture of Native Americans doesn't receive the attention it deserves. Illinois researcher Pam Silas previews her presentation this week at the McLean County Museum of History.

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.

Former U.S. Senator and two time candidate for Governor Adlai Stevenson II has died at age 90. Listen to archival sound of Stevenson reading the words of his father, another member of the Bloomington founded political dynasty. A half century ago the New School started in Bloomington as an alternative education model. Fifty years on the Mulberry School still teaches children how to learn instead of what they should learn. Emory knows what it means to be an unwanted child. Easton says the book came screaming out of her cortex as an effort to get it out and stop blackening her soul. Hear about the healing power of writing. And the Mayor of Normal drops by.

On today’s episode, a reporter turned state Senator explains why he pushed for creation of a task force to study local journalism. Plus, Jon Norton reflects on how music changed in the first hours after the 9/11 attacks. And a preview of the new Backyard Tire Fire album.

Two Central Illinois conductors on the Underground Railroad in Tazewell County were charged with violating fugitive slave laws. Abraham Lincoln was their lawyer. Celebrate the underground railroad in McLean and Tazewell Counties. Congressmen Darin LaHood and Rodney Davis call for the ouster of two top national security officials saying those officials ignored intelligence predicting the Taliban would roll over the Afghan government. A national labor leader from McLean County calls for solidarity - against the pandemic. Plus, the Make Music Normal festival returns with precautions.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. You'll hear about what to expect with vaccine hesitancy among children and their caregivers. Plus, an interview with LaSalle County coroner related to the Jelani Day case.

Even though the body of ISU graduate student Jelani Day's body was in the Illinois River a long time, the coroner says some information about Day was not lost. Bloomington musician Brett Conlin shares his new album. There are lots of warning signs of domestic violence, a crime of control. Jealousy is one. Insults another. Countering Domestic Violence in Bloomington highlights domestic violence awareness month. Halloween is coming and for millennia people have looked to the night sky as the seasons turn. The director of the ISU planetarium tells you what to look for this time of year

ISU professor Intan Suwandi says disruptions in the supply chain began with the first signs of the pandemic

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know for Monday, Nov. 1, 2021. You'll hear about why the FBI might not be too eager to fully take over the Jelani Day investigation. Plus, an interview with Normal City Manager Pam Reece.