Arts and Culture

Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told a crowd of about 1,200 people at Illinois Wesleyan University on Monday night that Bloomington-Normal favorite son Adlai Stevenson II was her commencement speaker the year she graduated college.

In this glued-to-your-phone era of technological isolation from our fellow human beings, one creative person is turning to old tech to help people reconnect and spread joy and a little art. As part of our ongoing feature series More of That, Please, we bring you the story of typewriter poetry.

Hotter Than June frontman Josh Humphries will perform the band's songs live for the last time in a solo acoustic set in Bloomington. But it's not the end of the band or Humphries' musical ambitions.

McLean County has one Nobel Prize winner — but oh what a one! Modern electronics rests upon Clinton Davisson’s physics experiments bombarding a block of crystalized nickel with electrons.

The matriarch of a prominent Bloomington-Normal business family has died. Linda Shirk was 79.

Taylor Mathews is a competitor on the History Channel show "Forged in Fire." Mathews is co-owner of his family-owned shop, Edge of Normal Workshop, which just moved to a new location near Downtown Bloomington.

Every Friday a group of unhoused people meets in a room at the Junction in Downtown Bloomington to write. They are part of a writing group, an effort to help the unhoused enrich their lives amid a stressful existence.

It’s the end of an era for Illinois Wesleyan University’s School of Theatre Arts, which housed a bodiless Aphrodite head on top of their building for more than two decades.

Fifteen community partners will be on hand at Franklin Park and the Creativity Center to explore ways the arts intersect with health and wellness. Free mini classes begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.

The Bloomington-Normal Area Convention and Visitors Bureau has received a $150,000 state tourism grant to further restore Sprague’s Super Service in Normal ahead of Route 66's 100th anniversary next year.