The 21st

12/19/2024

Advocates and experts discuss wage gaps across the state that women face as well as the perspective of women of color.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtVOePJFVPU

12/17/2024

What do you think was the biggest hit this year in movies and what is your favorite holiday classic?

12/13/2024

A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor is helping people understand Quantum Science through theater.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TRLr41FKg1o&pp=ygUVaWxsaW5vaXMgcHVibGljIG1lZGlh

12/12/2024

A Syrian-American journalist based in Illinois and a Middle East affairs expert share reactions to the fall of Bashar Al-Assad's regime in Syria and some concerns as a new government takes shape.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inwXO3nlaZ8

12/11/2024

Social media experts from Engadget , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Government Social Media as well as influencer Jen White and hairstylist Cassidy Wilson Hair join us for a conversation on all the changes happening in the social media world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpczV58LMwo

12/10/2024

A panel including journalists from Vox , Harvest Public Media , and Illinois Public Media as well as experts in the realm of alternative meat weigh in on lab-grown meat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr_cDboSHkg

12/10/2024

Chef Ken Polk from Kenspiration Kitchen gives tips on holiday dishes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsmgq1wHyAs

12/09/2024

A journalist who has been covering hydrogen production in the Midwest for WBEZ and Grist.org joins the program today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z20cVpQ4MkU

12/07/2024

It’s nice to be recognized!

This , we're saluting the stations serving the Prairie State: Illinois Public Media, WSIU Public Television/WSIU Public Radio, WBEZ (Chicago Public Media), WTTW - Chicago PBS, WGLT, WTVP, WNIJ/WNIU, Tri States Public Radio, WVIK, Quad Cities NPR, WDCB Listener-Supported Jazz & Blues, WQPT PBS, WCBU, WYCC, WEIU PBS and WGVV.

12/06/2024

Today, we discuss the rising popularity of Jeppson's Malort in the Midwest and beyond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqGYcIQYCI0

12/06/2024

We discuss what the return of President Trump to power means for gender-affirming care in Illinois as the Supreme Court debates the fate of bans on that care for transgender youth.

12/06/2024

On this week's Illinois News Roundup, we discuss the latest on Peoria's tent encampment ordinance and how the city's LGBTQ community is feeling as President-elect Trump prepares to take power again.

12/05/2024

Walter Braud was a teacher, lawyer, and became the first Black prosecutor in Rock Island, and later becoming Western Illinois' first Black Circuit Judge and only the second Black Chief Judge in Illinois. He shares his life experiences in his new memoir.

12/04/2024

A journalist from The Wall Street Journal and public health experts from Columbia University and The University of Chicago discuss MAHA policies and what the Department of Health and Human Services could look like under Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/a-deeper-look-into-rfk-jr-and-make-america-healthy-again-campaign

12/03/2024

On today's program-the state of volunteering in 2024.
https://will.illinois.edu/21stshow/story/organizations-around-the-country-face-setbacks-and-challenges-in-recruiting-volunteers

12/02/2024

A film director and journalist discuss their experience working together and how "Disturbing the Bones" came into fruition.

Filmmaker and journalist team up on new crime thriller novel set in Illinois December 02, 2024 Produced by Brian Mackey   Images Courtesy of Penguin Random House Listen Download "Disturbing the Bones” is the name of a new novel set in Illinois. It’s part crime story and part geopolitical thrill...

11/26/2024

News is being consumed in many non-traditional ways nowadays.

New book explores how America gets its news November 26, 2024 Produced by Christine Hatfield   Photo courtesy of Washington University in St. Louis and University of Chicago Press Listen Download Many Americans get their information on politics not from the news, but from social media, or even frie...