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John Till grew up in Naperville but was always drawn to the outdoors and wide open spaces. Till gets right to it on the opening track to his new album of…

We live in a rapidly aging world. A new global photography project captures the lives behind the statistics by documenting the lives of 72-year-olds — the world's median life expectancy today.

Schools are so short of substitute teachers they're now taking college students. It serves the colleges and the K-12 districts. And as central Illinois braces for a mid-week winter storm, learn about the surprisingly complex job of operating snow ploughs. Adding the U of I at Chicago to the Missouri Valley conference is about more than sports...And there are broadcast rights. Plus, despite pressures on the restaurant industry...high costs, labor shortages, you name it, it was a pretty good year for twin cities eateries.

Janet Mariani needed a home for her first business—an ice cream shop. She chose Downtown Bloomington.She considered Uptown Normal instead. But it already…

If it seems like everybody is doing a podcast these days, it might almost be true. That includes governments.As digital technology has made it cheap and…

The Kitchen Sisters Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva report on a visit by former Yankee baseball player Joe DiMaggio to the Sicilian village of his ancestors. Despite nearly a year's worth of preparation by the townspeople of Isola della Femine (EE-sole-uh della FEM-ee-nuh) the visit did NOT go off as planned.

- A group of Muslim women living in the United States has just published a manual aimed at helping their sisters in the Muslim world achieve equality with men. NPR's Margot Adler reports that the manual, which shows how modern human rights declaration are consistent with the koran, will provide a how-to-guide for Muslim women's groups in five different countries to fight for their rights.

Commentator Aaron Freeman hopes he caused his sister's brain tumor. When they were children, he kicked her in the head. As an adult, she developed the tumor. The exact cause isn't certain, but the other probable cause is genetic - and the gene is linked to breast cancer - so he hopes that it is the kick, and not the gene, that is the culprit.