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217 Today: Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021
Where you live, and your race, can have a huge impact on your life expectancy. In Indianapolis, a new study finds there's more than a 16-year gap in how long people live.
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Back To School Mental Health Check-In
We’ve heard the mental health struggles of parents, educators and after-school providers during the COVID-19 pandemic, but how are our children and teens doing? This segment originally aired on August 31, 2021.
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Sex Ed in Illinois schools
Illinois will have an updated sex education curriculum — one that propenents say is more inclusive, culturally relevant, and based on national standards, but some lawmakers say the law goes too far by introducing sensitive topics too early. This segment originally aired August 31, 2021.
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217 Today: Monday, Oct. 4, 2021
In today's deep dive, we learn how some rural utilities are handling increased demand for power and water from marijuana businesses.
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217 Today: Friday, Oct. 1, 2021
In today's deep dive, a conversation with Champaign-Urbana Public Health District epidemiologist Awais Vaid.
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Working From Home or Back in the Office, People are Burning Out
After a year and a half in the pandemic, some are finding that work-from-home routine to be harder than ever. We talked to a licensed clinical psychologist and the author of The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It about burnout and how it affects different communities.
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When Did Humans Actually Arrive In The Americas?
For decades, archeologists have debated when humans first set foot in North America. Now, ancient footprints discovered in New Mexico are offering some clues to when people first inhabited the continent we call home, which could alter the widely accepted timeline for when humans first lived in North America by thousands of years.
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217 Today: Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021
In today's deep dive, beans, peas and lentils are gaining traction on Midwest farms as demand increases for the products.
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Deer Hunting in Springfield
Springfield is allowing bow hunters to help reduce the population within city limits in an effort to cull a population officials say has grown too large. We talked to three people about the potential consequences.
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Murder Cases Rise Outside Chicago
The FBI came out with annual crime statistics. Looking at 2020, most crimes dropped, but murders were up. We talked about the numbers here with one of Illinois’ leading criminologists.