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WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know to start your day for Thursday, March 25, 2021. A look at how McLean County's COVID-19 vaccination pace…

The Bloomington Normal tourism picture is getting better, but better is a relative term. Yet, major events and meetings are going back on fall calendars. Hear from the McLean County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Plus, crypto currencies and digital art based on blockchain technology are moving into the mainstream. They even had a Saturday night Live Skit, and they're also being developed in central Illinois. Digital artists make NFTs. Illinois Wesleyan University has won back to back national golf championships, yet two years apart.

A Bloomington attorney and Lincoln scholar has given a letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to a Peoria Attorney, to the Lincoln Library and Presidential Museum in Springfield. It's a window into the mind of Lincoln as a politician and person in transition. Hear a reckoning of the costs of COVID in the things you can't do: lost health and lost opportunity from the pandemic in McLean County. Gardening is good for the body, mind and soul. Sarah Davis sure thought so. The WGLT Datebook takes you on the Glorious Garden Walk at the David Davis Mansion. Hear about the delicious and the dangerous poke sallet. It's tasty but sometimes toxic.

Unit 5 school buses have been running late the first few weeks of school. They're doing better but still need to improve. Pandemic relief money will help McLean County move ahead on technology, roads, and other long running projects. A Bloomington mom fought for months to have her son correctly diagnosed with a rare disease. She says doctors need to be more receptive. And Heartland Theater resumes live in person performances with the classic comedy Tartuffe. The 400 year young play is, about a sanctimonious scoundrel and a wealthy pious gullible guy.

Hear how much the marketplace thinks Rivian is worth right now. It's changing a bit as the company runs up to its initial public offering.Eviction cases filed last month were double the pre-pandemic rate in McLean County, as the pace picks up. A central Illinois scholar says food supply chain issues exposed by the pandemic suggests a need to diversity crop choices. Ashlihan Spaulding studies agribusiness and food system management. And is there any such thing as a bad pork chop sandwich? Find out the finalists in the high school pork and pigskin championship.

Bloomington-Normal’s intensive care beds have nearly reached capacity even as the county’s active coronavirus caseload drops to its lowest level in six…

Black Lives Matter BloNo announced a sweeping platform of policy demands Friday that would shrink local police departments, remove officers from schools,…

Two suspects in the Funks Grove slaying remained jailed Sunday as authorities again raised the possibility of more arrests and the victim’s daughter—now…

UPDATED 11:15 A.M. | McLean County Coroner Kathy Yoder said preliminary results from an autopsy conducted Sunday morning show the 31-year-old Downs man…

Illinois State University is taking next steps toward the launch of mechanical and electrical engineering programs.ISU has been considering the addition…