Best People

For the Season One Finale, Cher calls up Chicago Detour Guide, Alex Bean, to help her tell a Chicago Christmas history lesson.

It's Illinois’ Bicentennial and we take a look back, as well as look toward our next two hundred years!

Right outside Anna, Illinois, Tabitha Trip and the Southern Illinois Against Fracturing Our Environment are doing their best to keep fracking out of Illinois, no matter if it makes them unpopular.

Marj Halperin and her team at Indivisible Chicago teach canvassing classes, with a comedic twist.

One Illinois' executive director, Ameya Pawar, got a chance to speak with United States Senator Dick Durbin this past summer. This is an edited version of that conversation.

Since the last week of September is Diaper Need Awareness Week, we spoke to some of the people that help bridge the "Diaper Divide".

This week, Cher takes us through the 2018 Illinois State Fair.

On June 27th, Justice Anthony Kennedy made his final ruling. So, who's Janus?

Late this spring, the Southern Illinois Universities campuses were at a crossroads...

In May, the Trump administration announced several updates to the Title X Family Planning Program, drastically challenging reproductive rights. In this episode, we meet patient Grecia Magdaleno and Planned Parenthood's Amy Whitaker, as they take us through Title X has helped their lives, and the lives of so many others, for the better.

Dylan Parker is an alderman of Rock Island, part of the Quad Cities. He's a husband, father of three, under 30, and happens to be a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. In this episode, can a radical idea like a citywide ISP change a town?

Chris Lain ran for mayor of Savanna, IL in April 2017. With three other opponents, all of whom were born and raised in the Western Illinois town, Lain was the outlier. He only lived in the town since 2013. In this episode, we hear the story of a gay liberal from Chicago and how he swung a town that voted for Trump in 2016.

The Savanna-Sabula Bridge was built in 1932 and demolished this past March. Why did this bridge have to go, and can we get some others to go too? In this episode, we take a look at Illinois' infrastructure policies, and how we can keep the foundation of our state from crumbling.

From One Illinois, this is Best People, a show about Illinois and the stories that make this state great. Coming soon!