Sound Ideas

As the Trump administration sends National Guard soldiers to Chicago, a half dozen Illinois State University students have been called to active duty this week.

If you enjoy humor found in unusual places ... if you enjoy sorting through public documents ... if you enjoy bluegrass music, then this show might just be for you. It's called "FOIA Love."

Food bloggers Terry Fitts and John Malkin launched a Facebook page to hype Central Illinois restaurants. They were inspired by late restaurant booster Larry Carius, but bring a different style and tone to their food writing.

Normal Mayor Chris Koos said another developer is interested in the Uptown site, but the town's existing TIF district is too short term.

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.

Another approved use of money is to replace an aging electronic record management system that integrates information for the courts, law enforcement, and other McLean County stakeholders. There has been a lot of unhappiness about that project too.

Mark Denzler, president of the Illinois Manufacturers Association, says many companies are deciding whether they can afford to absorb those costs or pass them on to their customers.

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.

One of the largest religious groups at Illinois State University has begun work on a $3.7 million overhaul of its building near the heart of campus, with hopes of better serving students in crisis and drawing in others — with a little help from a new coffee shop.

All this week, WGLT has been showcasing some of the makers who have made Bloomington-Normal a manufacturing hub. It hasn't always been that way.