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On today's episode, the WGLT staff revisits some of their favorite stories of 2021.

A Bloomington-Normal man is on pins and needles waiting for his best Christmas gift ever.

On today's episode, you'll hear about a good year in the stock market is impacting municipal pensions. Plus, an interview with U.S. Sen Tammy Duckworth about the newly passed defense bill. And how grief hits harder for some during the holidays.

On today's episode, an interview with Colleen Kannaday at Carle BroMenn Medical Center about the pressures of COVID. Plus, the debut of our new food and farming series Food Trek. And a new episode of Datebook.

There's a lot of fighting and web-slinging in the new film “Spiderman: No Way Home.” But there's also a lot of complicated psychology at play as Peter Parker confronts the multiverse – this big narrative swing from Marvel that opens the door for multiple versions of the same character.

On today's episode, WGLT staff share more of their favorite stories of 2021.

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.

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

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.