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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The National Liver and Kidney Cure was said to be made from vegetables and herbs—and may have had some alcohol in it for an extra kick. It was made right here in Normal.

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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 vote.

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The McLean County Basketball Tournament is one of the longest running basketball tournaments in the state of Illinois.

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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 about town more than a century ago.

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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 race riots in Springfield, Chicago, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Ku Klux Klan became a force in central Illinois. Segregation grew in Bloomington-Normal and what had been a thriving black middle class was gradually destroyed.

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Bloomington-Normal had only one documented lynching.

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John L. Walcott was Bloomington's first undertaker.

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Irons Folsom Fox blazed the path for women in Bloomington-Normal who had dreams of writing in the late 1800s.