WGLT's Sound Ideas - Full Episodes

On today's episode, law enforcement in McLean County say turning guns after a revoked FOID card is pretty much on the honor system, experts fear cuts to the National Weather Service could make it harder to prepare for severe storms and other disasters, private schools in Bloomington-Normal are hopeful about federal plans to expand school choice, plus music for people of a certain age takes center stage at Community Players Theatre. 

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This Bloomington mayoral candidates forum was recorded live on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at ISU's Bone Student Center. It was hosted by WGLT. The candidates are incumbent Mboka Mwilambwe and challengers Dan Brady and Cody Hendricks.

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This Normal mayoral candidates forum was recorded live on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, at ISU's Bone Student Center. It was hosted by WGLT. The candidates are incumbent Chris Koos and challenges Chemberly Harris and Kathleen Lorenz.

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On today's episode, a retired school superintendent leads the campaign to support a countywide school sales tax, the town of Normal gets set to take over a nonprofit arts organization, and one of Jimmy Buffet's former bandmates helps McLean County school kids' mental health through music. 

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On today's episode, a cardiologist sees promise for Ozempic and other medications used for weight loss to help your heart too, an exhibit tells the unsettling story of the former Unarco plant in Bloomington, plus there's a new push in Springfield to restore state financial aid for incarcerated students.

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On today's episode, a Normal nonprofit writes letters to and from people struggling with obsessive compulsive disorder; Illinois' new head archivist is a Bloomington-Normal native; and 98-degrees star Drew Lachey and his wife Lea created a musical coming to Bloomington about being yourself.

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On today's episode, members of Bloomington-Normal's unhoused population and their advocates gather to talk solutions following the screening of WGLT's documentary Frozen and Forgotten, historic preservationists wanted Bloomington to save the Front N Center building. The city manager says that wasn't possible, what could the potential shutdown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau mean for Illinoisans, and the drawings and paintings of the late Bloomington artist Harold Gregor are now for sale at a discount. 

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On today's episode, a Bloomington homeless shelter rolls out a plan to help more of the unhoused, the bus transfer center planned for Bloomington keeps getting more expensive as construction costs rise, and a new study shows bullying is a real problem in Illinois courtrooms.

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On today's episode, a Bloomington neighborhood comes together after tragedy, some property managers in Bloomington-Normal say all this talk of a housing shortage is overblown and WGLT takes you behind the scenes of its video documentary on Bloomington-Normal's unhoused population.

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On today's episode, the latest on the deaths of four people in Bloomington, Illinois State University's president discusses the university's financial challenges, voting rights advocates push back on a proposal to require proof of citizenship to vote, plus the parallels Gov. JB Pritzker is drawing between Donald Trump and the rise of Nazi Germany is creating a national buzz.

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