The festival kicks off at 7 p.m. Wednesday with a free screening of "Charles Ives' America" at the Normal Theater; several concerts and a lecture are to follow at ISU.

Author and musicologist Joseph Horowitz stops in Bloomington-Normal this week as part of the fourth and final leg of a year-long celebration of American composer Charles Ives.

Illinois State University students have mixed responses to alternative housing after the university announced the ...