Illinois Public Media News

Triple homicide in Danville; Pritzker endorses childhood investment; Champaign bids for high school sports tourney & Obama portraits will be on display in Chicago.

In 2004, Illinois had 68 daily papers. That number dropped to 59 just last year, according to research from Penny Abernathy at The University of North Carolina.  And the situation for weekly papers in the state was even worse, dropping from 505 to 324 in those 15 years. 

Whether it's a brisk walk or a quick jog, exercise just makes us feel better. And we know it's good for our mental health, too. Those benefits have been well-documented in research studies for decades.  When it comes to Yoga, though, much less is known, despite its growing popularity.

It’s been almost a month since recreational cannabis became legal here in Illinois. And for months now, law enforcement has been preparing for those challenges as well as some of the other nuances that exist in the new law.

On today's 21st: It’s been almost a month since recreational cannabis became legal in Illinois. We checked in with the Illinois State Police director about how law enforcement agencies have fared during the transition

In this web exclusive, Roger Ebert Fellows Hal Burgan, Coltrane Zerai-Che, and Xinyi Li preview some of the films nominated for Best Picture in the 2020 Oscars and pick out some of the biggest snubs from this year's awards. 

New law allows HS school students to leave class to vote; Professor heads to Finland to study mental health; Danville man shoots two alleged home intruders.

Earlier this month, astronomers announced that they had detected a repeating fast radio burst, or FRB, from a galaxy only half-a-billion light-years away. That may sound far, but in space terms, that’s closer than any of the previous bursts that have been observed. 

Pat Benatar’s 1979 anthem “Hit Me with Your Best Shot" reached No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold well over a million copies in the U.S., but she is one of several female rockers who have been left out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which announced its latest inductees earlier this month. 

A deadly strain of coronavirus is spreading in China. Officials there have reported 17 deaths and more than 400 infected.