This November, when Illinoisans enter the voting booth, it may feel eerily similar to 2022, with Democratic incumbent JB Pritzker and Republican challenger Darren Bailey vying for Illinois governor. But has a third-party candidate ever had a chance to win the governor's race? Let’s look to the past to help us understand the future, in this episode of our series McHistory.

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From the dawn of electronic library databases to AI in only 50 years and Milner Library's 50th anniversary.

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Movie theaters and railroads were early adopters of air conditioning in the 1920s and 30s.

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz as part of the U.S. war with Iran has sent energy prices way up. In this episode of McHistory, you'll go back to 1973 when something similar happened in McLean County during the OPEC oil Embargo.

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McLean County and central Illinois are gearing up for America 250 with a bunch of events, everything from a community drone show on July 2nd to readings of the Declaration of Independence. It's not the first national anniversary involving a big celebration. In this episode of WGLT's series McHistory, lets go back 50 years to hear what they did for the nation's bicentennial

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz as part of the U.S. war with Iran has sent energy prices way up. In this episode of McHistory, you'll go back to 1973 when something similar happened in McLean County during the OPEC oil Embargo.

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For the first 100 years of Bloomington history, water was scarce. In 1929, the formation of Lake Bloomington began after periods of drought, contamination and scarcity of safe drinking water.

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