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Reporting from in and around [email protected] to Statewide across Illinois in:Bloomington/Normal – WGLT 89.1 (Saturdays 5 PM)Carbondale – WSIU 91.9 (Saturdays 3 PM and Sundays 6 AM)Mount Vernon - WVSI 88.9 (Saturdays 3 PM and Sundays 6 AM)Olney - WUSI 90.3 (Saturdays 3 PM and Sundays 6 AM)Quad Cities - WVIK 105.7 HD-2 (TBD)Rockford/DeKalb – WNIJ 89.5 (Saturdays 6 AM, Sundays 2 PM)Springfield/Decatur - WUIS 91.9 (Saturdays 9 AM)Peoria – WCBU 89.9 (Saturdays 5 PM)Pittsfield - WIPA 89.3 (Saturdays 9 AM)Urbana/Champaign – WILL 580 (Saturdays 11 AM)

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Statewide: The War of the Worlds

2026/10/28

The 1938 radio drama caused confusion, frightened some and launched the career of Orson Welles.

Statewide: A musical time capsule

2026/10/22

Aadam Jacobs talks about his massive archive of taped concert recordings from recent decades and the grassroots effort to get them digitized.

Statewide: Mary Todd Lincoln item from the night of the assassination goes on display

2026/10/16

On this episode, we tell you about the cape Mary Todd Lincoln was reportedly wearing the night her husband was assassinated.

Statewide: Schools and screentime

2026/10/08

Illinois passed a school cellphone ban this year. Some parents and administrators are also rethinking how much students laptops.

Statewide: Vaccine skepticism and infectious diseases

2026/10/02

Some are wary of the measles vaccine, which had nearly wiped out the disease. More cases are beginning to show up.

Statewide: Teaching about the Asian American experience

2026/09/25

In 2021, Illinois passed a law requiring every public elementary and high school teach a unit of Asian American and Pacific Islander history. Five years later, many schools have yet to fully implement it.

Statewide: Helping the monarch butterfly

2026/09/17

The official Illinois insect has suffered habitat loss. But some states, including Illinois and Iowa, have embraced an effort to boost the monarch.

Statewide: Witnessing the blitz

2026/09/11

The Trump Administration's stepped-up immigration enforcement campaign resulted in arrests, protests and violence. Through it all, reporters were on the scene to document what was happening.

Statewide: The sinking of the Lady Elgin

2026/09/04

About 300 people died when the ship sank in Lake Michigan, near what is now Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois.

Statewide: A new law could shorten autism diagnosis wait times

2026/08/28

Speech language pathologists trained in autism evaluation would be allowed to diagnose children under age 3 who are enrolled in Illinois Early Intervention Program. We hear from experts and parents.

Statewide: Changing juvenile detention

2026/08/20

Advocates hope a couple of new laws will bring improvements.

Statewide: The last days of Route 66

2026/08/13

Back in 1984, the final stretch of U.S. Route 66 in Arizona was bypassed by an interstate. The Mother Road officially became a ghost road the following year.

Statewide: A league of their own

2026/08/07

The Women's Professional Baseball League is playing all of its inaugural season in Springfield.

Statewide: At a state prison, desperate men set themselves on fire

2026/07/30

The Joliet Treatment Center, designed to treat people with serious mental illness, repeatedly failed to prevent or respond to fires despite two deaths, an investigation by The Marshall Project, WBEZ and the Sun-Times found.

Statewide: Farmers and mental health

2026/07/24

Financial stress and a lack of mental health resources in rural areas contribute to the problem.