Bloomington City Manager Tim Gleason says he's excited about creating incentives to rehab houses. Gleason says some areas of town fit perfectly with people who want to live near the city core and who don't want to live in a three hundred thousand dollar house. The Illinois Stewardship Alliance dreams of a day Illinois can feed itself...Right now Illinois imports more than 90-percent of its food. And...is Normal still in the running for that new Samsung battery plant? Big changes in the EV industry complicate the answer.
Jon Norton is the program director at WGLT and WCBU. He also is host of All Things Considered every weekday.