WGLT McHistory Series
55 posts
April 17th, 2024
0 mins read by Bill Kemp
October 13th, 2023
0 mins read by Bill Kemp
September 26th, 2023
0 mins read by Bill Kemp
August 8th, 2023
McHistory: Paul Rhymer, the man who put Bloomington 'on the air'
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can b...
2 mins read by Bill Kemp
July 31st, 2023
McHistory: Richard Blue was the first Black person to run for Bloomington council
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHi...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
November 15th, 2022
McHistory: ‘King of Swedes’ kept Bloomington streets clean
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can...
9 mins read by Bill Kemp
October 20th, 2022
McHistory: Helen Clark McCurdy was a political pioneer in Bloomington
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episod...
6 mins read by Bill Kemp
August 13th, 2022
McHistory: Housekeeper for the affluent and the tawdry
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can b...
6 mins read by Bill Kemp
August 9th, 2022
McHistory: Press Butler the great detective
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard periodical...
5 mins read by Bill Kemp
June 22nd, 2022
McHistory: George Hoagland’s ‘Oil of Gladness’
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard periodical...
5 mins read by Bill Kemp
February 18th, 2022
McHistory: Multitalented suffrage leader promoted women’s health and the vote
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory...
5 mins read by Bill Kemp
January 12th, 2022
McHistory: A Bloomington Huckster’s best-selling medicine was Blackberry Balsam
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard periodically o...
4 mins read by Bill Kemp
December 7th, 2021
McHistory: Noted Author Harold Sinclair of Bloomington
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard...
6 mins read by Bill Kemp
September 27th, 2021
McHistory: Early Settlers Battled Prairie Fire to Tame the Land
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can...
5 mins read by Bill Kemp
September 16th, 2021
McHistory: Dr. William Hill, A Man of Many Contradictions
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be hear...
5 mins read by Bill Kemp
August 31st, 2021
McHistory: Sigmund Livingston and the Anti-Defamation League
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes...
2 mins read by Bill Kemp
August 11th, 2021
McHistory: Rags the Dog, The Illinois Traction System Mascot
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be ...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
July 19th, 2021
McHistory: McLean County’s Connection to the Tri-State Tornado of 1925
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
June 24th, 2021
McHistory: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Visit to McLean County
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be ...
2 mins read by Bill Kemp
June 11th, 2021
McHistory: Inhumane Conditions at the McLean County Poor Farm
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episode...
2 mins read by Bill Kemp
May 13th, 2021
McHistory: Bowles Street Named for the ‘old singing soldier” with the medicine wagon
Listen to the audio on W...
2 mins read by Bill Kemp
April 23rd, 2021
McHistory: Fighting to get women right to vote
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be he...
2 mins read by Bill Kemp
February 15th, 2021
McHistory: The 1914 McLean County Basketball Champions
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can b...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
February 26th, 2020
McHistory: 19th Century Cabbie Saw all of Bloomington-Normal Society
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory ...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
February 12th, 2020
McHistory: Segregation in Bloomington-Normal
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be hea...
2 mins read by Bill Kemp
December 2nd, 2019
McHistory: Bloomington-Normal’s Sole Documented Lynching
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can ...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
November 5th, 2019
McHistory: Blazing the trail for women who write
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be hear...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
November 5th, 2019
McHistory: From Cabinets to Coffins
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard periodicall...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
October 11th, 2019
McHistory: Louise Calimese and the McLean County Home for Colored Children
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory ep...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp
September 23rd, 2019
McHistory: Early 20th Century Feminism
Listen to the audio on WGLT's website hereMcHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard periodic...
1 mins read by Bill Kemp