Relief efforts for Haitian earthquake victims are still going strong, but for a Bloomington man and the charity he founded it's just continuing more than a decade of that work. Central Illinois jazz musician Yoseff Henry says it all started when he and his brothers started singing as kids while doing the dishes and their dad grabbed a cassette recorder. It used to be you could get from Peoria to Bloomington and back without driving yourself. A look back at the light rail system known as the interurban. People at a job fair in Bloomington are countering one conservative narrative that they soaked the government for pandemic jobless benefits. They say they've been trying to get a job all along. Others say they still fear COVID.
WGLT Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker has spent more than three award-winning decades in radio. He lives in Normal with his family.