Women

McLean County’s women were highlighted Saturday at the McLean County Museum of History. About 50 people attended the afternoon event where a brief lesson was given on some notable women in McLean County’s history.

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton visited Bloomington recently as her We Thrive initiative gets off the ground. The listening tour meets with women across the state to learn about barriers to financial literacy.

That’s What Teens Say is the teen program of the She Said Project. It empowers girls to find their voices through a public storytelling performance.

Women political candidates are the norm today. But it hasn’t been so very long since a woman running for office was rare or even unheard of. The first woman to serve in the Illinois Senate was Florence Fifer Bohrer of Bloomington in 1924. But leading the way for Bohrer some years before was Helen Clark McCurdy, the first woman to run for office in Bloomington, in 1915.

In a rare Bloomington performance at Illinois Wesleyan University on Saturday, the Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana share music by Bonds, Burleigh and Boulanger.

Cornell University professor Kate Manne will give the virtual keynote for Illinois State's Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies symposium Thursday. The talk explores philosophical foundations behind "mansplaining" and gaslighting.

WGLT’s Lauren Warnecke visits the WELL Summit, an annual gathering for Illinois women in educational leadership. Hundreds of women from across the state heard featured speakers Lauren Sisler and Cheryl Watkins, with a panel discussion and breakout sessions aimed at building comradery among women in a male-dominated part of the education sector.

Bloomington Police say they will try harder to hire more women officers over the next decade.

Illinois will now provide Medicaid benefits to eligible mothers for up to 12 months postpartum, a major extension from the previous 60-day limit.Gov. JB…

You never forget your favorite toy or board game from when you were a kid. But those who invent those toys and games are often forgotten to time.…