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WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know to start your day for Wednesday, May 24, 2023. You'll hear about Sen. Dick Durbin's visit to Bloomington. Plus, an interview with one of the developers working on an $18.5 million housing project near downtown Bloomington.

On today's episode, developers plan a major housing development near downtown Bloomington, Bloomington-Normal hospitals begin a new, faster treatment for stroke victims, plus the latest in WGLT's McLean County History Maker profiles.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know to start your day for Tuesday, May 30, 2023. You'll hear about the potential for prevailing wages being required for construction of a Bloomington housing project. Plus, an interview with the McLean County Fatherhood Coalition.

WGLT's The Leadoff is everything you need to know to start your day for Friday, April 28, 2023. You'll hear about Sunday's Fair Housing Affair at the YWCA McLean County. Plus, a preview of a Mayan show at the ISU Planetarium, running weekends through May 6.

In American fiction, TV and film, suburbia has long stood as shorthand for repression. It's a place of "wide lawns and narrow minds," as Earnest Hemingway put it. But representations of the suburbs have taken on a different shape of late.

Oil development in North Dakota and Montana has caused ridership to increase dramatically on the only Amtrak line running through those states. Nationally, the railroad company costs the federal government more than $400 million every year, so rail enthusiasts thought the oil boom might turn around the losing rail proposition in certain regions. But the Empire Builder Line is still not making money.

The U.S. House has approved a bill to improve school safety in the wake of the shooting that left 17 dead at a Florida high school.The bill authorizes…

Governor’s support bolsters Stratton’s candidacy before field to replace Durbin crowds

President Trump's tariffs promised to save American manufacturing jobs. NPR's Michel Martin talks with Paul Czachor, CEO of American Keg, which manufactures American-made stainless steel beer kegs.

Sports reporter Dave Reynolds recently concluded a 38-year run with the Peoria Journal-Star, covering the Bradley men's basketball beat since 1990.