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Mid American Gardener: The Herb Gardens at Kennekuk County Park, Danville
This recent episode of Mid-American Gardener takes you to the beautiful Bunker Hill Herb Garden at Kennekuk County Park in Vermilion County. Host Tinisha Spain joins Master Gardener Kasi Mitchell for a tour of this hidden gem, featuring themed gardens filled with culinary herbs, biblical herbs, fragrant plants, and natural dye plants. Discover inspiration, gardening tips, and a reason to explore this local treasure.Latest News
America The Bountiful 7.11 - 7.24
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Illinois Classical
Evening Concert
The Evening Concert on Illinois Classical
Music by Gottschalk, Ives, Ellington, Vaughan Williams, Debussy, Beethoven, and others
Dialogue
The Nolan Wells case prompts discussions about Black teens being in mostly White spaces
Black college football player Nolan Wells accompanied his White male friends on a holiday boat trip off the Mississippi coast. Hours later… his friends made it back home. He…
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The 21st Show
One-on-one with award-winning Hamilton actor Jonathan Butler-Duplessis
Actor Jonathan Butler-Duplessis attended high school and college in Champaign. After more than a decade in regional theater, he made his Broadway debut in Hamilton. He…
The 21st Show
‘Forgotten Souls’ tells the stories of missing Tuskegee Airmen
Roughly 1,000 Black men were trained in Tuskegee, Alabama to serve as Army aviators in World War II. Nearly 100 were killed — and of those, 27 went missing. Most were never…
The 21st Show
Struggling to manage your children’s online activities? An Illinois author is here to help.
The author of Growing up in Public: Coming of Age in a Digital World shares how to manage a generation that operates online all the time.
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Prairie Fire
Prairie Fire: Season 3 - Episode 7 - May 2026
For this month's Prairie Fire, students from the University of Illinois’ College of Media spent a semester producing five short documentaries highlighting food, skating,…
Mid-American Gardener
Propagation, Hail Recovery & Summer Garden Tips
In this episode of Mid-American Gardener, Tinisha is joined by horticulturists Karen Ruckle and Ella Maxwell for hands-on advice on how to keep your garden thriving all…
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…
