US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited Illinois recently and talked with The 21st Show about the importance of investing in the future. 

To continue our series on Illinois mayoral races, we dove into an election coming up in Carbondale. A local business owner and the current mayor pro tempore are both vying for the seat.

To continue our series on Illinois mayoral races, we dove into an election coming up in Carbondale. A local business owner and the current mayor pro tempore are both vying for the seat.

We discussed why the rail workers' unions are unhappy, what a strike could mean for the supply chain, and how that strike might still be avoided.

Tentative labor deal averts threat of nationwide rail strike.