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Keep up with news in Central Illinois every weekday with 217 Today. Hear the day's headlines, along with one deeper dive, in just ten minutes. Learn about the people and places that make Central Illinois unique with 217 Today.

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Lyric Theatre @ Illinois' production of — Lyric Theater @ Illinois

November 04, 2021

217 Today: Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021

In today's deep dive, we'll get a sneak peak at the first in-person lyric theatre production since the start of the pandemic at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana.

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Arlen Miller and his partner Mike Walsh. — Arlen Miller

November 03, 2021

217 Today: Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021

In today's deep dive, we'll hear from a Danville native who lost his partner to AIDS more than 30 years ago.

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Edison Middle School in Champaign. One in four Champaign Unit 4 students were chronically absent last year. — Emily Hays/Illinois Newsroom

November 02, 2021

217 Today: Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021

In today's deep dive, we'll learn more about the findings from the Illinois State Board of Education's annual report card for schools.

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Naperville Central High School received this mummy as a gift from a doctor in the 1940s. — Naperville CUSD 203

November 01, 2021

217 Today: Monday, Nov. 1, 2021

In today's deep dive, we’ll learn how a mummy came to a high school in Naperville back in the 1940s.

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The Rev. Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse, sits for a portrait at his group's field hospital in New York's Central Park in May. — Jessie Wardarski/AP

October 29, 2021

217 Today: Friday, Oct. 29, 2021

In today's deep dive, we'll hear from a professor and minister about how to counter COVID-19 misinformation among white evangelicals.

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Dana James, a former Des Moines Register reporter, started Black Iowa News at the start of the pandemic. Here, she is using her phone to record an interview for a future story. — Northwestern Medill School of Journalism

October 28, 2021

217 Today: Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021

In today's deep dive, we'll learn about two people who are documenting the next generation of news outlets.

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University of Illinois journalism professor Nikki Usher on the university's Urbana campus. — Emily Hays/Illinois Newsroom

October 27, 2021

217 Today: Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021

In today's deep dive, we'll learn about how COVID-19 misinformation spreads in rural areas of Illinois.

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Front entrance of the now vacant News-Gazette building in downtown Champaign. The newspaper downsized and moved to a smaller building, following its acquisition in 2019 by Community Media Group. The downtown building was sold separately. — Jim Meadows/Illinois Newsroom

October 26, 2021

217 Today: Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021

In today's deep dive, we'll hear Illinois Newsroom’s Jim Meadows speak with a Northwestern professor who researches areas with a shortage of news coverage.

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