McHistory
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McHistory goes back in time to explore big moments and small stories from McLean County history. McHistory episodes can be heard periodically on WGLT's Sound Ideas. The series is produced in partnership with the McLean County Museum of History.
McHistory
11M ago
Wherever humans gather, there is garbage. And getting rid of it is a challenge. The start of trash removal in Bloomington dates to the start of the 20th century and to a man known in his day as the King of Swedes ..read more
McHistory
1y ago
The way Black people were treated in Bloomington-Normal got a lot worse in the 20th century than in the years before, and that's saying something. Those conditions produced jarring juxtapositions in people’s lives, such as that of an intelligent churchgoing Black woman who worked for the family of State Farm royalty and in a brothel to make ends meet ..read more
McHistory
1y ago
One doesn’t think of Bloomington and central Illinois as a lurid hotbed of crime. But it certainly seems it could have been that way during the mid-to-late 1800s as portrayed by the three city newspapers of the day ..read more
McHistory
1y ago
Coming from nothing, an illiterate Black man from Bloomington-Normal — long before the civil rights movement — found a niche in the national market for cleaning products. In this episode of the WGLT feature McHistory, hear about a floor polish and the man who invented and sold it ..read more
McHistory
2y ago
Ellen Ferguson was a champion of women and women's suffrage. She made Bloomington-Normal her home in the 1870s ..read more
McHistory
2y ago
In 1913, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in Bloomington to stop the defamation of Jewish people by appealing to minds, morals, and the law. Sigmund Livingston served as its first director ..read more
McHistory
2y ago
McHistory is a co-production of WGLT and the McLean County Museum of History ..read more
McHistory
2y ago
Bloomington-Normal has a long and distinguished history of business entrepreneurship. One less than distinguished, but very successful, business, had a continent-wide spread in the late 1800s ..read more
McHistory
2y ago
McHistory is a co-production of WGLT and the McLean County Museum of History ..read more
McHistory
2y ago
This week's episode of McHistory recounts Eleanor Roosevelt's visit to Bloomington-Normal in 1937 ..read more