Illinois Public Media News

After 30 years of hosting All Things Considered, and more than 40 years at NPR, Robert Siegel is retiring. Friday is his final day on-the-air.

On the 21st: We look at a ProPublica investigation that details the military installations across the country that produce potentially harmful toxic waste. Plus, what should be done with prison buildings once they've closed? But first, we talk about how to actually make good New Years' resolutions about food with Dr. Aaron Carroll.

The family of a Champaign County Nursing Home resident found dead on the nursing home grounds on a hot summer day is suing the facility. 

Beginning this week, people and corporations donating up to $1.3 million for private school scholarships can get a 75 percent credit toward their state income tax. This was a controversial but bipartisan concept, adopted last summer to help forge a compromise in a big overhaul of Illinois' school funding plan. Such programs have taken off in other states, but it’s off to a slower start here.

For years, Illinois 13th District Congressman Rodney Davis has been trying to get legislation passed that give local governments in rural Illinois a better shot at disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. Now, the Taylorville Republican says he may finally have his chance.