The 217 Today Podcast
217 Today: Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021
In today's deep dive, we'll hear more about the John Deere strike involving more than 10,000 Illinois employees.
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John Deere employees on strike
John Deere workers are striking at all 14 of their manufacturing plants across the country, four of which are in Illinois — including their headquarters in Moline. This follows the trend of many labor strikes across the country.
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The Korean Vegan: Joanne Lee Molinaro talks food and identity
Joanne Lee Molinaro has been sharing her recipes and family stories since 2016, but the Illinois native and graduate of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign never expected her food, and her words, to mean so much to so many people. She joined The 21st to talk about her book "Korean Vegan," as well as the intersection of food and cultural identity.
The 217 Today Podcast
217 Today: Monday, Oct. 18, 2021
In today's deep dive, we'll find out why more Midwest farmers are turning their cornfields into chestnut trees.
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217 Today: Friday, Oct. 15, 2021
In today's deep dive, we’ll get an inside look at how the Delta variant of COVID-19 has made hospitalized patients younger and sicker.
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Illinois autumns impacted by climate change
Fall is in full swing in Illinois and depending on where you are in the state, we’re coming upon peak foliage season. However, there are warnings that climate change could delay and dull that signature fall color.
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Census shows white flight from Illinois
Even though Illinois' population loss wasn’t as bad as predicted, it still wasn't great — Illinois did lose population, while most states gained. And precisely who is leaving Illinois is also an interesting story: it’s mostly white people saying goodbye.
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217 Today: Thursday, Oct. 14, 2021
In today's deep dive, we'll hear an Illinois State University criminal justice expert's thoughts about the Jelani Day investigation.
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Carmen Bolden Day talks about her son Jelani, his life and disappearance
Jelani Day was a church-goer, athlete and had dreams of being a speech pathology doctor. On August 24, the Illinois State University grad student went missing. Nearly a month later, his body was identified after being found in the Illinois River. Today, we talked with his mother.
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Reckoning with the internment of Japanese-Americans During World War II
After decades of silence, Japanese-Americans who had been imprisoned during WWII, and their descendants, spoke up in the Redress Movement of the 1980s, and it's been seen as a model for other communities seeking justice and healing today for wrongs committed by the US government.