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At least 82 rural hospitals have closed since 2010 leaving small town communities scrambling to provide lifesaving services. That’s not an easy task, and to find out why, Side Effects’s Bram Sable-Smith traveled to one Missouri town that lost its hospital two years ago.
Bitter cold temperatures are breaking records across the Midwest this week. In central Illinois, the temperature is below zero and that's before the wind chill. There people who have no choice but to work outdoors look for creative ways to try to minimize the suffering.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District wants people to test their homes for Radon gas, and officials have an inexpensive way to test homes.
On the 21st: What's causing the freezing cold temperatures outside - and how can you find the right clothes to stay warm? Plus, we speak to two WBEZ reporters about their investigation into an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease at a state veterans' home in Quincy, where 13 residents have died since 2015. And, we'll take a look ahead at what's to come in Illinois political news this year.
The sales of grass fed beef have soared in recent years from $17,000,000 in 2012 to $272,000,000 in 2016. But the grass those cattle eat could be changing in ways that will affect the industry.
