Ukraine

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Donald McHenry urged the nation to get its domestic house in order during addresses this week at Illinois Wesleyan and Illinois State universities, as part of the Adlai Stevenson lecture series.

Five people and four generations of Zhanna Shypulia's family have moved nearly a dozen times since Russia invaded her home city of Kherson in February. They don't plan to go back.

A Ukranain woman who teaches in Bloomington-Normal says she hopes her daughter and 3-year-old granddaughter will be able to escape their war-torn country this week and live with her family in the U.S.

An Illinois State University graduate student says he was amazed by the resiliency and hope among the Ukrainian refugees he helped for two months this summer in Warsaw, Poland.

Illinois State University History Department Chair Ross Kennedy studies World War I. Kennedy is leery of drawing direct parallels between the pre-World War I network of alliances or anti-globalist sentiment and the present-day environment.

When he was 12, Jose Antonio Vargas immigrated to the United States to live with his grandparents. He eventually became an award-winning journalist. As someone who personally experienced what being undocumented looks like, he now challenges how people talk about race, identity and migration by posing the question, "How do we define American?"

You can add Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to the long list of challenges facing electric automaker Rivian as it tries to ramp up production in Normal.

Dr. Christine Varga-Harris is a professor within the Illinois State University History department. Among the courses she teaches are ones focused on Russian history.

Speaking to students Friday at Normal West High School, a veteran soldier and a Peace Corps volunteer both described Ukraine as a lovely country with a gently rolling landscape similar to central Illinois.

The Illinois General Assembly will consider a bill condemning and sanctioning Russia, three weeks into Russia's war on Ukraine.