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Illinoisans Fight Wildfires
While the danger of the wildfires may seem far away, some of our very own fellow Illinoisians have been deploying to help fight the flames in California and Colorado.
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Justice Delayed in Cook County Jail
There are hundreds of people who’ve been waiting years for their cases to come to trial in Cook County. The 21st spoke to a Chicago Sun-Times reporter who recently wrote about these issues to hear more of the implications of justice being delayed.
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Interview: Knox College President Teresa Amott And Bradley University President Stephen Standifird
The 21st checks in with the leaders of Knox College in Galesburg and Bradley University in Peoria about how their campuses are handling the fall semester amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Big Ten To Play Football
The Big Ten conference this morning announced it would resume playing football the weekend of October 24th. The 21st spoke to collegue, managing editor and Morning Edition host for WILL in Urbana Brian Moline to get a few more details on the plan.
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Interview: Tim Killeen, President of the University of Illinois SystemÂ
The University of Illinois System has one of the most comprehensive reopening plans in the country during the COVID-19 pandemic. The University of Illinois System President Tim Killeen told us more about how school testing is going, students returning to campus and Big Ten football resuming.
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Interview: Tom Philpott Discusses ‘Collapse of American Farming’
Illinois is one of America’s leading agricultural states. The 21st speaks to the author of “Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It” about the challenges facing our food system & agriculture.
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The NPR College Road Trip
The 21st speaks to a reporter and a producer from NPR about their conversations with parents and epidemiologists while they embark on a road trip across the country, visiting college towns. We talk about how they even made a stop here at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to learn more about coronavirus saliva testing and contact tracing.
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Fall Home & Gardening
We’re just about one week away now from the Autumnal equinox, when we’ll officially move from summer to fall. The 21st speaks to two writers for the Illinois Times’ Home and Garden Fall Guide about to talk about fall home and garden ideas.
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Contact Tracing in Orthodox Jewish Community
Contact tracing, or letting people know as quickly as possible when they may have come into contact with someone who has tested positive for an infectious disease, is critical to slowing the spread of the coronavirus. The 21st spoke to a member of Skokie’s Orthodox Jewish community and a volunteer behind an initiative to provide confidential, hyperlocal contact tracing to stop the spread of COVID-19.
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Reporter Roundtable: Madigan Updates & Campaigns
Near the end of last week, a bipartisan panel of members of the Illinois House met to consider misconduct charges against the speaker of the Illinois House. A day later, a longtime Democratic State Senator stepped down, the result of a federal tax evasion case.