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WGLT McHistory Series
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McHistory: Depression-era post office mural chronicles development of Normal
By Bill Kemp
Great Depression
Painting & Drawing
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McHistory: When Downtown Bloomington reigned in retail
By Bill Kemp
Urban Sprawl
Urban Renewal
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McHistory: Homelessness in Bloomington-Normal has been a challenge in many eras
By Bill Kemp
Poverty
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McHistory: Modern electronics rests with Bloomington-Normal's only Nobel Prize winner
By Bill Kemp
Famous Locals
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McHistory: Bloomington-Normal's legacy of public protest not always civil
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McHistory: Even before Route 66, motorists camped at a way stop in Bloomington
By Bill Kemp
Route 66
Automobiles
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McHistory: The 100 Bushel Corn Club boosted mid-century ag yields
By Bill Kemp
Corn
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McHistory: Newly donated World War II diary shares POW experience of Normal resident
By Bill Kemp
World War Two (WWII)
Jail and Prison
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McHistory: Baseball ban a dark day for some in Bloomington
By Bill Kemp
Famous Locals
Baseball and Softball
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McHistory: Life, literature and children
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: Paul Rhymer, the man who put Bloomington 'on the air'
By Bill Kemp
Television, Radio, & Film
Famous Locals
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McHistory: Richard Blue was the first Black person to run for Bloomington council
By Bill Kemp
First
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McHistory: ‘King of Swedes’ kept Bloomington streets clean
By Bill Kemp
Swedish
McLean County Coal Company
Infrastructure
Pandemics and Outbreaks
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McHistory: Helen Clark McCurdy was a political pioneer in Bloomington
By Bill Kemp
First
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McHistory: Housekeeper for the affluent and the tawdry
By Bill Kemp
Institutional Racism
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McHistory: Press Butler the great detective
By Bill Kemp
Crime
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McHistory: George Hoagland’s ‘Oil of Gladness’
By Bill Kemp
Local Product
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McHistory: Multitalented suffrage leader promoted women’s health and the vote
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: A Bloomington Huckster’s best-selling medicine was Blackberry Balsam
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: Noted Author Harold Sinclair of Bloomington
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: Early Settlers Battled Prairie Fire to Tame the Land
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: Dr. William Hill, A Man of Many Contradictions
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: Sigmund Livingston and the Anti-Defamation League
By Bill Kemp
Jewish History & Moses Montefiore Temple
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McHistory: Rags the Dog, The Illinois Traction System Mascot
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: McLean County’s Connection to the Tri-State Tornado of 1925
By Bill Kemp
Tornado
Spring
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McHistory: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Visit to McLean County
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: Inhumane Conditions at the McLean County Poor Farm
By Bill Kemp
Poverty
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McHistory: Bowles Street Named for the ‘old singing soldier” with the medicine wagon
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: Fighting to get women right to vote
By Bill Kemp
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McHistory: The 1914 McLean County Basketball Champions
By Bill Kemp
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