In this Black History Month edition of our Sound Ideas recurring series McHistory, you'll hear from a Spanish American War Soldier from Bloomington who writes home from eastern Cuba. Julius Witherspoon returned to Bloomington after the war, but he was not well, perhaps because of a tropical disease. Witherspoon died a few years later at the age of 46. McHistory is a co production of GLT and the McLean County Museum of History. This episode included the voices of Museum Marketing Director Jeff

Lobbying days in Springfield happen every year in which interest groups throng to the state capitol to push for certain legislation. As part of GLT's joint project with the McLean County Museum of History, we take you back more than a century to hear what was an important issue of 1909. This McHistory starts with a Chicago and Alton Railroad Trip. Barbara Egger married the much older John Brown Lennon of Bloomington, a major figure in American Labor History. He was the National Treasurer of the

The hamlet of Danvers once hosted a sanatorium for those struggling with addiction to alcohol. As part of GLT's joint project with the McLean County Museum of History, McHistory examines this particular cure and the era that lead to it.

America's most successful woman playwright is all but unknown today.

Though a city in the free north, southern-state settled McLean County was not a welcome environment for members of the anti-slave movement.

At the tail end of the Civil War, there was another battle stirring in the City of Bloomington: the war on dogs.

Amidst the civil rights movement, one Bloomington clergyman traveled south of the Mason-Dixon line to register blacks to vote.

In the era of Jim Crow laws, enforced racial segregation kept blacks and whites separate at restaurants, in bathrooms, and in education.

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.