Join us on a morel mushroom hunt and take a look behind-the-scenes in the creation of museum exhibits at Taylor Studios in Rantoul, IL. We also visit an old-school gaming paradise called Arcadia in central Illinois. Plus, Charles Dickens shares his thoughts on the Illinois prairie and the Mississippi River.

Have you ever wandered through a museum and wondered how an exhibit actually gets made? Taylor Studios is a leading exhibit design and fabrication firm right here in central Illinois.

After 18 months as Champaign County Administrator, Rick Snider is leaving the post to become the village administrator of Rantoul, effective December First. 

One of the goals of Governor Bruce Rauner’s Turnaround Agenda is to reduce the number of local units of government --- which Illinois has more of than any other state. 

Voters in the Champaign County town of Rantoul approved the dissolution of one of those local governments in the recent election. Or so they thought.

An ongoing investigation by The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting has found the oversight of migrant housing is a fractured and ineffective system despite decades of reforms.