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- Korva talks with Business Week reporter Paula Dwyer about the controversy surrounding Alexis Herman's nomination for Secretary of Labor. Controversy includes Herman's role in arranging White House fundraising coffees and her position on racial quotas.

Sherman Alexie has written novels and other works of fiction, such as Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. NPR's Renee Montagne talks with Alexie about his most recent book of short stories, Ten Little Indians.

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a measure that will withhold state funds from libraries that ban books. The move sparked a lot of questions.

While results are not official until certified by the Illinois State Board of Elections on Dec. 5, the Associated Press called the race for Gov. JB Pritzker instantly upon closure of the polls at 7 p.m.

Illinois’ presidential electors will meet at the Statehouse on Tuesday to cast their votes for president and vice president of the United States.

Writer Sherman Alexie is out with his first book for young adults. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tracks the misadventures of a young teen, Arnold Spirit, Jr., who decides to leave the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school.

This weekend we talk with the authors of two new memoirs: Gay's Hunger is the book "she wanted to write the least." And Alexie's You Don't Have to Say You Love Me is about growing up on a reservation.

Hear about wearable art. Tattoos date back more than 5-thousand years. Working class Europeans had them and so did the very rich and powerful. Alexis…

A complete wrap up of Governor Rauner's State of the State address includes conversation on the missing budget and grants for in-state college students.…