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Promotional image of Prairie Fire, Season 4, Episode 2 - October 2026 with three images from each of the three segments

Watch the October edition of “Prairie Fire”

 Join "Prairie Fire" for an-all new episode exploring historic cemeteries of Illinois with librarian and Illinois history expert John Kokoris. You'll also meet fight director Paul Dennhardt, who for 35 years has been designing and choreographing staged physical violence in theaters across the country. Finally, we're celebrating 150 years of Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Evening Concert

The Evening Concert on Illinois Classical
Music by Ives, Bolcom, Schoenberg, Brahms, Stravinsky, Mahler, Haydn, and others
Dialogue
Juliana Stratton and Don Tracy

Political heavyweights Juliana Stratton and Don Tracy make the case for replacing US Senator Dick Durbin
Dialogue is sharing recent 21st Show interviews with the 2026 US Senate candidates from Illinois.
The 21st Show
President Trump is wearing a dark-blue suit, white button-down shirt and red USA hat; he looks toward the camera and points behind him; the image was taken at night, so the construction project appears out of focus as a series of color blobs in the background.

What Trump can — and can’t — do to the midterms
With just weeks until the Nov. 3 midterm elections, many people are worried about what could happen — from federal agents at polling places to the president trying to…
The 21st Show
Both Pritzker and Bailey are wearing dark blue suits with white dress shirts and neckties (Pritzker's is light blue, Bailey's is burgundy). Pritzker is holding a pen and making a point. Bailey, wearing clear-frame classes, is talking back.

Recapping the only debate in the Illinois governor’s race
This week in Chicago the two major-party candidates for Illinois governor faced off in their only debate: Democratic incumbent Gov. J.B. Pritzker, and his second-time…
The 21st Show
The book

From Illinois to Rome, how we got an ‘American Pope’
NPR’s Daniel Burke and Scott Detrow spent a year researching the backstory of how an altar boy from Illinois became the leader of the global Catholic Church.To do that, they…
Prairie Fire

Prairie Fire: Season 4 - Episode 2 - October 2026
We get a tour of some great graves and important cemeteries across Illinois, we grapple with fight director Paul Dennahardt, and we celebrate 150 years of an important…
Mid-American Gardener

Late-Summer Garden Bounty: Dahlias, Vegetables and Beautiful Blooms
Shane and Chuck join Tinisha with an abundance of garden produce and beautiful blooms. And Kelly stops by to discuss caring for mums.
State of Change

Small gestures to make a big difference in preserving our planet
We visit a zero-waste general store, a garden bringing a community together in a Chicago food desert, a program protecting pollinators, and advice to increase sustainability…