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As of the week of December 6, Champaign-Urbana has seen 348 gun incidents and 23 homicides so far in 2021. Illinois Public Media's "News, Brews and Beatz" is bringing together people to talk about stopping gun violence. We previewed the upcoming discussion on December 13 at 6:00 p.m. at Pour Bros. Taproom in Champaign.
Two women in Peoria have taken the idea of “going out for a walk” to a whole new level. The two childhood friends from Peoria set out in November of 2019 to traverse all 1,639 streets in Peoria, and they joined us to talk about why they set out on this journey and what it did to their relationship. This segment originally aired November 4, 2021.
In November 2021, President Joe Biden signed the $1-trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. To talk about how the bill will specifically affect Illinois and what it could do for diversity, we were joined by a reporter and the executive director of a pre-apprenticeship carpentry program in Chicago.
This week, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is traveling to Illinois to visit clean energy sites. It comes a day after President Joe Biden signed an executive order to continue pushing America toward cleaner and more sustainable energy. She joined The 21st to talk about the executive order, the recently-passed infrastructure bill, electric vehicles, and more.
Why do we think the wife of Abraham Lincoln was crazy? Some historians are saying that maybe it’s time for a reprisal of the way talk about her. One such historian joined us to talk about her findings.
