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Secor unveiled its first ever historical marker the park at the center of the Woodford County village. A dedication ceremony honored the bravery of former resident Wilhelmina "Minnie" Vautrin who worked as a Christian missionary in China during World War II.
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The Illinois State Historical Society is giving a lifetime achievement award to a McLean County man. Greg Koos is the retired Director of the McLean County Museum of History.
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Here’s the story of a strange strike in which everybody went to work, and everybody got paid, and everybody went to jail.
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The McLean County Museum of History is about to rededicate a memorial honoring the 336 McLean County men and women who gave their lives for freedom during World War II.
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The U.S. military used DNA analysis to identity the body of John Ferguson of Flanagan. Ferguson was 20 when he died as a prisoner of war captured by the Japanese in the Philippine Islands. He will be buried Oct. 1 in Gridley.
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Queen Elizabeth II has died at the age of 96. When she ascended the throne in 1952, most present-day Britons, and most Americans for that matter, were not yet alive. Queen Elizabeth ruled for a period that is about a third of the length of U.S. history.
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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.
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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.
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Illinois State University History Department Chair Ross Kennedy studies World War I. Kennedy is leery of drawing direct parallels between the pre-World War I network of alliances or anti-globalist sentiment and the present-day environment.
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Ellen Ferguson was a champion of women and women's suffrage. She made Bloomington-Normal her home in the 1870s.