WGLT's Sound Ideas - Full Episodes

On today's episode, administrators at Illinois State University and elsewhere in higher education lament decades of state disinvestment, Bloomington's mayor hopes a new housing project downtown will spur more development in the city's urban core, Illinois Wesleyan breaks ground on a new space for students to solve problems and think big, plus the Bloomington Bison consider their first season a success off the ice -- it not on it. 

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On today's episode, ISU alum Brendan Hunt from the hit TV series Ted Lasso returns to campus for a three-day residency plus a cartoonist gives a talk at ISU about how AI helped her create a memoir.

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On today's episode, two fatal crashes involving pedestrians on the ISU campus have promoted the the university and town to look for safety solutions, a food bank will stop distribution in Bloomington-Normal despite historic need, a Bloomington shelter sees positive response from a new outreach effort, plus grade school students in Normal marvel at a new playground they helped design. 

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On today's episode, a soldier from Bloomington finally returns home more than 80 years after he died on the battlefield, McLean County fights to keep a federal grant for disease surveillance that the Trump administration wants to cancel, a Bloomington-Normal family is turning tragedy into a way to help others, and meet the ISU Police Department's new therapy dog. 

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On today's episode, Heyworth elects a mayor who ran as a write-in candidate, a plan to ban carbon capture near the Mahomet Aquifer advances in the state legislature, plus a central Illinois filmmaker harnesses centuries of syrup making in his backyard.

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On today's episode, a McLean County community that once had its own K-12 school system -- will soon have no school at all, a Central Illinois woman whose life was touched by giving and receiving donated organs, plus an upcoming talk at ISU examines how Adolph Hitler won over the majority in 100 days.

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On today's episode, the use of lead paint decades was banned decades ago but a number of neighborhoods in McLean County are still dealing with the health effects, and an ISU visiting scholar and retired diplomat discusses U.S. relations with Africa.

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On today's episode, tariffs overshadow a trade mission trip to Mexico for business and agriculture leaders from McLean County and across Illinois, plus McLean County's only rape crisis center moves closer to a major expansion after some key funding comes through.

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On today's episode, Illinois State University pays tribute 10 years after a plane crash took seven members of the Redbird athletics community, central Illinois lawmakers and stakeholders try to combat human trafficking and support its victims, and an Illinois Wesleyan student saw a community needed and filled it -- offering translation services in nearly two dozen languages.

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