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This week's episode of McHistory recounts Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to Bloomington-Normal in 1937.
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In this episode of McHistory, a look at the McLean County Poor Farm, where living conditions were often inhumane.
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On this month's episode of McHistory, you'll meet Florence Mae Risser Funk of Bloomington, who played a key role in getting women the right to…
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The McLean County Basketball Tournament is one of the longest running basketball tournaments in the state of Illinois.During this episode of McHistory,…
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Here is a profile of a man who drove vice presidents and governors, wealthy landowners, visiting artists, and the prominent of Bloomington-Normal all…
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The early 1900s saw an influx of racism and discrimination in the Midwest, from anti-Catholic, anti-immigrant, and anti-African American sentiment, to…
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Bloomington-Normal had only one documented lynching.This episode of McHistory produced by WGLT's Mary Cullen tells of the gruesome death of Charles…
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John L. Walcott was Bloomington's first undertaker.This episode of McHistory shares the story of one cabinet furnisher turned coffin maker.This episode of…
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Elizabeth "Lizzie" Irons Folsom Fox blazed the path for women in Bloomington-Normal who had dreams of writing in the late 1800s.One of the Pantagraph's…
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The care of orphaned, abandoned, and rejected African American children in Bloomington Normal has not always been kind or good, or even wanted in certain…