Illinois Public Media News

The Fighting Illini men's basketball team beat Purdue 79-62 Tuesday night in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Campaign to raise money to make a state park more accessible; Error registers non-US citizens to vote; and police officer charged with DUI after fatal crash.

Peoria and Champaign compete for HS sports tournament; Police officer charged after fatal crash; African-American work honored in museum.

In 1955, after Chicago teenager Emmett Till was lynched and beaten to death on a trip in Mississippi, his mother Mamie made the decision to have the media cover Emmett’s open casket funeral. Many consider that decision a major factor in helping to ignite the civil rights movement. 

Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is perhaps best known for his “I Have A Dream” speech. As inspirational as it was, many of his lesser-known speeches offer a nuanced and articulate argument against racism worldwide. In the years closer to his assassination, he also took more radical positions regarding inequality and war.