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Even as professional and university sports teams have changed their names away from racist Native American mascots and logos, dozens of Illinois high schools continue to hold to them. We're talking with people who want to hold on to the imagery and those who want it banned.
In August, Governor J.B Pritzker signed a new bill that will allow students to take off up to five mental health days from school starting in January. We answered your questions about how these days would be implemented.
Today on the show, we talked about some of the issues affecting Latino communities in Illinois — from representation in the General Assembly to the state’s COVID response with a representative from the Latino Policy Forum.
A survey done by Pew Research Center showed that people who were Black believed that marrying someone outside of their race was generally a bad thing twice as much as people who were white. We talked with two essayists who recently wrote about interracial relationships.
Like a lot of places around the country, Quincy, Illinois, is struggling to fill jobs and has experienced population loss in recent years. The city's mayor and a new resident of Quincy joined The 21st today.
