WGLT's Sound Ideas
Weekdays 5-5:30 p.m.
Sound Ideas is WGLT's flagship news program. Every weekday, WGLT reporters go beyond soundbites for deeper conversations with newsmakers, musicians, artists, and anyone with a story to share. This 30-minute newsmagazine is produced Monday through Friday.
Transcripts are available in the Apple Podcasts app, inside each episode.
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As wildfires rage in California, Bloomington-Normal artists are diligently making cards for victims of similar disasters. -
A doctor in Normal talks to WGLT about the American Academy of Sleep Medicine's updates on recommended treatments of restless leg syndrome. -
Former Normal Mayor Dick Godfrey has died. As mayor from 1976 to 1985, Godfrey helped the Town of Normal transition from a small college town into an economically diverse community. He was also mayor during the town's infamous firefighters strike. -
Girl Scouts from across central Illinois learned everything they need to know to prepare to sell cookies. -
State Sen. Chris Balkema, who represents northern McLean County and parts of Livingston County, was sworn into office Wednesday on the refurbished Illinois Senate floor. -
An after-school program at Bloomington Junior High School is now going back to the Boys and Girls Clubhouse on Illinois Street after federal funds that supported the program weren't awarded. The funding impact includes well over a dozen other clubs in the state. -
The Community Health Care Clinic's new executive director said one of her priorities is to raise awareness of the primary care provider. -
Music director Taichi Fukumura gives his first chamber concert with the orchestra, featuring Stacy Garrop's 2020 baroque-inspired mini-suite 'Spectacle of Light.' -
A planned annual 2% increase in Town of Normal water rates in each of the next six years may not be enough to maintain adequate fund balances. -
University High School senior London Wollenweber of Bloomington is a political junkie. London's political hero is the late President Jimmy Carter. And he and his mother just drove down to Plains, Georgia, to pay their respects to the late president.
