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Stephen Wolfram has a rare public event in Champaign Wednesday evening. The CEO of one of the area’s largest tech companies, Wolfram Research, will be at Barnes and Noble tonight discussing and signing copies of his latest book, “Adventures of a Computational Explorer.”

A team of University of Illinois professors has received a $550,000 grant from NASA to produce research to help get humans safely to the Moon and eventually to Mars. 

Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert said Tuesday the new U.S. trade agreement with Canada and Mexico will make two of the state's top export markets even stronger.

A pair of credit rating agencies on Tuesday issued warnings on the finances of both the state of Illinois and its largest city.

The Champaign County chapters of both the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) jointly sent a letter to the Champaign Community Unit School District 4 Board of Education and superintendent Susan Zola highlighting a lack of access to gifted and advanced placement classes for black Unit 4 students, as well as disparities in discipline and academic proficiency for black pupils as compared to their white peers.

We revisit our conversation with one Galesburg man about a condition that temporarily erased his memory for a day, with no lasting physical or mental effects.

It’s been about a decade since Illinois and states across the country adopted tougher learning standards for public schools. The goal of Common Core is to prevent kids from falling behind, but some say it hasn’t leveled the playing field.

While so much attention is focused on corruption at the federal level, it may actually be more prevalent in the United States at the state and local levels.  We talked with an Illinois State professor about his findings on the matter. 

Today on the 21st:  While so much attention is focused on corruption at the federal level it’s actually more prevalent here in the United States at the state and local level.  We talked with the Illinois State professor about that finding.

Across the country, nearly 95,000 people are waiting for a kidney transplant. And the list has been growing for years. That's pushed some people to try unusual ways to find donors.