WJEZ is the Pontiac, Illinois, radio station. Between 2016 and 2019, Fairbury Historian Dale C. Maley recorded 42 short radio segments about various aspects of Fairbury history.

Mr. Maley carefully researched each of these history stories and created an outline to use when recording the history segments. The MP3 file of these 42 interviews was uploaded to Archive.Org for permanent storage and access. Because these are history stories, they are really timeless.

You can use the links below to choose and then listen to the topics that interest you.

1. Short Dale C. Maley Biography and the Founding of Fairbury.
2. How to Do Historical Research for Fairbury or Livingston County, Illinois.
3. Fairbury's Most Nationally Famous People (Francis Townsend and the Goudy Brothers)
4. Coal mining in Fairbury.
5. Fairbury Railroad History
6. Fairbury Murders
7. Fairbury Book Authors
8. Fairbury War Stories
9. U.S. Patents issued to Fairbury citizens
10. Fairbury and the 1893 Columbian Exposition also known as the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
11. The early rivalry between Fairbury and Pontiac boys for Fairbury girls.
12. Fairbury and Native Americans.
13. Dominy Memorial Library history.
14. Fairbury Echoes Museum history.
15. A historical visit to Fairbury.
16. Fairbury area ghosts towns.
17. Discovery of old Fairbury maps.
18. Health conditions faced by the early Fairbury settlers.
19. Early Fairbury inventor Joseph Slagel.
20. The Shedd Aquarium’s connection to Fairbury.
21. Historic mural project in Fairbury.
22. Restoring the Occident Flour Sign in Fairbury.
23. Fairbury Coal Mining Book.
24. New Biography of William T. Stackpole.
25. Restoration of Swing Steidinger sign
26. Jail Cell & Upcoming Marsh Park Improvements.
27. Marsh Park Update.
28. The Successful Quest to Return William Stackpole’s 146 year-old book to Fairbury.
29. Dale C. Maley becomes President of the Livingston County Historical Society in 2019.
30. Transcribing William T. Stackpole’s 1849 California Gold Rush Diary.
31. Fairbury, Illinois from Prehistoric Times to Modern Times.
32. Fairbury in the World Wars.
33. Fairbury and the Civil War.
34. 1885 Fairbury Map and 1863 Civil War Murals.
35. Restoration of the Archer House Sign.
36. The Walton Bros.
37. The Kring Family.
38. McDowells Book.
39. Founding of Fairbury.
40. Fairbury connection to Las Vegas
41. The Goudy Brothers.
42. Dale C. Maley gives Genealogy 101 talk at Livingston County Historical Society