Remembering Steve Shoemaker
Steve Shoemaker, pastor, poet and long-time host of WILL-AM's "Keepin' the Faith", died Monday night after a ten-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Black Voters Discuss 2016 Election; Yom Kippur Begins; IL Researcher On Stopping Mosquito Viruses
On the 21st: We talked with black voters about issues they're concerned about heading into the elections. Plus, Champaign rabbi Alan Cook stopped by to talk about the importance of Yom Kippur and an Illinois State University professor discussed a grant to research mosquitoes life cycle to combat Zika and West Nile viruses.
Access Pipeline Work To Resume In Protest Area
The company building the four-state Dakota Access pipeline says it will resume construction on private land near Lake Oahe in North Dakota, where protests supporting tribal rights have endured for months.
No Teachers Strike; Classes As Usual For Chicago Public Schools Students
Negotiators for Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative contract agreement minutes before a midnight deadline --- averting a strike that would have disrupted classes in the nation's third largest school district.
JFK Speech In DeKalb County Heads To New Audience
With just weeks to go, much attention is given to the 2016 presidential election in the United States. But a look back in time reveals some topics were very similar on the road to the White House in 1960.