Today's Connect Transit bus system can trace its roots in Bloomington-Normal back more than 130 years. A new form of transportation connected Bloomington residents in the late 1800's, a horse railway.

We always like to hear stories of lovable rogues, the scalawags who cannot help but be loved despite their moral gray areas. Here is one such story.

As many social service agencies in the state suffer from lack of state funding today, we hearken back to an era when such services came only from the local community. GLT's Charlie Schlenker produced this edition of the occasional series McHistory done in partnership with the McLean County Museum of History.

There's a lot of talk this year about the anger of Americans who used to be middle class, those who feel insecure about their future and their society. Today we revive GLT's occasional series McHistory, with a look at a time in Bloomington Normal people were a lot more fearful and angry than they are now. It was the Great Depression and people who were accused of being socialists really were.