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WGLT's the Leadoff is everything you need to know for Monday, May 9, 2022. The Bloomington City Council meets tonight at 6. The council will vote on a potential replacement for former council member Jamie Mathy. Grant Walch is the proposed replacement. Illinois State University plans to open its new College of Engineering in the fall of 20-25. The university has agreed to spend 3 million dollars to redesign two buildings to house the college in the short term. Plus, ISU students will be paying more in tuition and room and board.

Some members of the Bloomington City Council want to offer direct aid to those hit by the June flooding and sewage backups. Hear about the reasons for and against the idea that are separate from from whether it's legal to do that. The town of Normal says it won't rush to have a dialog over true vaccine mandates for staff. But it is testing unvaccinated firefighters for the Coronavirus. And an independent observer says video shows Normal Police Officers coordinated well during a recent shooting incident.

A twisty thin ribbon of rural ground connecting cities is what a lot of the Illinois Congressional districts look like in the Democratic draft map released today. Republicans are howling. Political scientists say it not very good for democracy. The Mayor of Normal wants a second census count next year because he's not sure the current one is right. Rocker Bob Mould draws parallels to the 1980s Aids crisis and the early years of the Trump administration on his latest album. And hear from the new diversity and inclusion director at Unit 5 schools.

Frederich Nietzsche, the 19th century German philosopher, was in love with Turin. He raved about the city's gelato, its music and its quiet. Robert Rethy, head of the Philosophy Department at Cincinnati's Xavier University, tells Scott Simon about Nietzsche's Turin.

Besides being hit hard by the pandemic health-wise, a poll by NPR and other organizations finds that the coronavirus has taken a bigger financial toll on minority communities.

Officials named those killed in the attack on Sunday morning; their ages range from 22 to 57. Among them is the suspect's sister. It was the second major mass shooting in the U.S. in under 24 hours.

An Israeli airstrikes have killed what it said was a Hezbollah leader and hundreds of people in Lebanon. Thousands of people who fled airstrikes in the south arrived in Beirut searching for shelter.

One of Agatha Christie's last novels apparently contains not only a messy plot, but signs of undiagnosed Alzheimer's.

Renee Rosen's new historical novel "Windy City Blues" uses Chicago and its storied blues history as a backdrop to a story about perseverance and coming of…

Host Willis Kern talks with Bloomington Mayor Tari Renner about the final report from the city’s budget task force. IPR’s Tony Arnold and Amanda Vinicky…