McHistory

By WGLT

McHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard periodically on WGLT's Sound Ideas. The series is produced in partnersh... more

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July 17, 2023 Helen Clark McCurdy was a political pioneer in Bloomington
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.
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May 27, 2023 McHistory: 'King of Swedes' kept Bloomington streets clean
Wherever humans gather, there is garbage. And getting rid of it is a challenge. The start of trash removal in Bloomington dates to the start of the 20th century and to a man known in his day as the King of Swedes.
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August 13, 2022 McHistory: Housekeeper for the affluent and the tawdry
The way Black people were treated in Bloomington-Normal got a lot worse in the 20th century than in the years before, and that's saying something. Those conditions produced jarring juxtapositions in people’s lives, such as that of an intelligent churchgoing Black woman who worked for the family of State Farm royalty and in a brothel to make ends meet.
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August 09, 2022 McHistory: Press Butler the great detective
One doesn’t think of Bloomington and central Illinois as a lurid hotbed of crime. But it certainly seems it could have been that way during the mid-to-late 1800s as portrayed by the three city newspapers of the day.
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June 22, 2022 McHistory: George Hoagland’s 'Oil of Gladness'
Coming from nothing, an illiterate Black man from Bloomington-Normal — long before the civil rights movement — found a niche in the national market for cleaning products. In this episode of the WGLT feature McHistory, hear about a floor polish and the man who invented and sold it.
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February 18, 2022 McHistory: Multitalented suffrage leader promoted women’s health and the vote
Ellen Ferguson was a champion of women and women's suffrage. She made Bloomington-Normal her home in the 1870s.
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January 12, 2022 McHistory: A Bloomington huckster's best-selling 'medicine' was Blackberry Balsam
Bloomington-Normal has a long and distinguished history of business entrepreneurship. One less than distinguished, but very successful, business, had a continent-wide spread in the late 1800s.
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December 08, 2021 McHistory: Noted author Harold Sinclair of Bloomington
Bloomington-Normal has a tie to famed actor John Wayne and legendary filmmaker John Ford — a hardware store clerk turned noted author, Harold Sinclair.
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September 28, 2021 McHistory: Early Settlers Battled Prairie Fire To Tame The Land
There is not much prairie left in Illinois. Once, there was a waving sea of tall perennial flowers and grasses across much of the state. Now there is .01% of the original prairie left in Illinois.
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September 17, 2021 McHistory: Dr. William Hill, A Man Of Many Contradictions
A 19th century Bloomington doctor was a respected physician who was accused of stealing corpses.
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