Illinois Public Media News

The Project READ adult literacy program serving Champaign and surrounding counties wants to serve more people in 2019. And to do that, they need more people to volunteer as tutors.

On this encore edition of The 21st: We revisit our conversation with Parker Palmer. He joined us to discuss his book about looking at age as something entirely different, called "On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity & Getting Old." Plus, a new report finds that the Great Lakes are warming. Higher temperatures could have a disastrous effect on Lake Michigan’s game fish which depend on cold water.

 Minnesota-based poultry producer Jennie-O is recalling more than 164,000 pounds of raw ground turkey products that may be contaminated with salmonella.

Missouri basketball coach Cuonzo Martin is from Illinois, and he has stocked his roster with five scholarship players from his home state. They will enjoy their trips home for Christmas a little more after the Tigers beat Illinois 79-63 Saturday night.

Updated at 3:45 p.m. ET The partial shutdown of the federal government that began just after midnight Saturday won't be ending anytime soon. The Senate has adjourned with no business in the chamber anticipated before Thursday afternoon and, maybe not even then, if congressional leaders and President Trump can't reach an agreement over the president's demand for $5 billion in funding for his border wall.