March 21st, 2022
Press Release: MCMH Wins Community Partnership Award for “Breaking Bread in McLean County”
MCMH Wins Community Partnership Award for “Breaking Bread in McLean County”Bloomington, IL-The McLean County Museum of History (MCMH) received an award for Superior Achievement in Community Partnerships by the Illinois Association for Museums (IAM) in recognition ...
3 mins read by Jeffery Woodard
March 2nd, 2022
0 mins read by Susan Hartzold
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
December 1st, 2021
0 mins read by Susan Hartzold
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
September 1st, 2021
Treasures Under the Dome -- Part 1
Treasures Under the Dome will be a semi-regular video series that showcases one of the objects, papers, or images in our collections & archives that is not routinely on display at the Museum.Watch on YouTube...
1 mins read by Norris Porter
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 24th, 2021
Two more digitization grants!
The McLean County Museum of History is the recipient of two digitization grants to expand its efforts in making the Pantagraph Negatives Collection more readily available to the public online. The first grant in the a...
2 mins read by Norris Porter
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
June 2nd, 2021
0 mins read by Susan Hartzold
May 13th, 2021
McHistory: Bowles Street Named for the ‘old singing soldier” with the medicine wagon
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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
April 15th, 2021
Barbara Stuart -- 2021 History Maker Honoree
Barbara served for several years as president of the Normal Public Library Board and became the first president of the Friends of the Normal Public Library. She founded seven activist organizations: Young Adult Problems Study Group, The Minority Advocacy Council, the Minority Complaints about Pol...
2 mins read by Norris Porter
April 15th, 2021
Robert and Marilyn Sutherland -- 2021 History Maker Honorees
During their over five decades in Bloomington-Normal, Bob and Marilyn Sutherland participated in many ways to help make this a better community for everyone, particularly for those who often cannot make their own voices heard. Bob "has been arrested, investigated, and vilified, but he can�...
2 mins read by Norris Porter
April 15th, 2021
Jerry and Carole Ringer -- 2021 History Maker Honorees
Jerry and Carole’s shared passion for the arts is well-known in the community. Carole says, “(Art) helps to define the quality of life. Even if you are well able to put food on the table, culture is needed for the soul, mind, and spirit.”Carole was a volunteer and ultimately a professional...
2 mins read by Norris Porter
March 4th, 2021
0 mins read by Susan Hartzold
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
December 1st, 2020
0 mins read by Susan Hartzold
August 18th, 2020
0 mins read by Susan Hartzold
June 1st, 2020
0 mins read by Susan Hartzold
April 16th, 2020
Cemetery Walk Videos Now Online
The McLean County Museum of History has been a strong supporter of the arts and live theater for many years. And in turn, the arts community has reciprocated that strong support of the Museum and our educational programs, helping us bring to life our vibrant and diverse local history through live...
2 mins read by Candace Summers
March 13th, 2020
Museum Closed to the Public
In the interest of the safety of our patrons, volunteers, and staff in light of the developing COVID-19 situation regionally and nationally, the McLean County Museum of History and Cruisin’ with Lincoln on 66 Visitors Center will be closed to the public beginning Saturday, March 14. Should condit...
2 mins read by Jeffery Woodard
March 1st, 2020
0 mins read by Susan Hartzold
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