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Our local table premiered on WSIU, which is our PBS affiliate here at SIU on October 15th.

And gosh, we're, we're like, it's a little surreal and we're really excited that it's out there and all the fun stuff.

We've had some fun.

Absolutely.

So recipes, they'll be housed on ourlocaltable.co. Yep.

And we will be making them on the third Thursday of every month and airing on WSIU.

Which is our PBS affiliate.

We welcome the audience here in our Chicago studio as well as audiences watching and listening in Chicago and around Illinois on their local public radio and television stations.

And later tonight we'll be joined by Brian Sapp of WSIU in Carbondale and Mark Welp of WTVP in Peoria who have recorded questions especially important to our audiences in central and southern Illinois.

Finally, we have asked our studio audience to remain silent and refrain from reacting during tonight's forum out of fairness to the candidates and to allow us to get to as many questions and issues as possible.

So joining us now are candidates for U.S. Senate from Illinois, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Julianna Stratton and former Illinois Republican Party Chair Don Tracy.

accountable.

Okay.

So now I want to get to a question from Brian Sapp, a reporter and producer at WSIU Public Television in Carbondale.

Brian.

He Shall Feed His Flock.

And I was just... waiting for that key change and then the key change happens and here you are and I will never forget that and honestly I can almost well up with tears thinking about that moment and when I rewatch it I get goosebumps because maybe some of it is because our society just doesn't have a lot of that come unto me and all ye who are weary and that message resonates so beautifully right now but but it's also just the gorgeous singing and anyway that is why we're here and I had no idea that I would be able to sit in a conversation with the Sylvia McNair from that recording here in uh the studios here at wsiu um thank you so much for being willing to do this

very very very kind very generous of you to say emerson and i love alaska but um my cousins grew up in alaska so i know a little bit about how far in any case um yeah messiah come on to him All ye who are

weary and are heavy laden, and I will give you

I'm Brian Mackey.

That's all coming up today on The 21st Show, which is a human-made production of Illinois Public Media, airing on WILL in Urbana, WUIS in Springfield, WNIJ in Rockford, DeKalb, WVIK in the Quad Cities, WSIU in Carbondale, and Tri-States Public Radio in Macomb, Galesburg, and Keokuk, Iowa.

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And they also have their radio station there, and they also have their TV news station.

WSIU, they're partners of ours in a lot of things.

I know a lot of folks whose careers got started down in Carbondale through that program.

Nice to have you here advancing yours.

Less well-known is that the march led to the emancipation of as many as 20,000 people who'd been enslaved, and who joined the march following behind Uncle Billy's army.

Their perspective is at the center of the book, Somewhere Toward Freedom, by the historian Bennett Parten, who joins us for the hour today on The 21st show, which is a production of Illinois Public Media, airing on WILL in Urbana, WUIS in Springfield, WNIJ in Rockford, DeKalb, WVIK in the Quad Cities, WSIU in Carbondale, and Tri-States Public Radio in Macomb, Galesburg, and Keokuk, Iowa.

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I'm Brian Mackey with Collin Corbett for The Hour, today on The 21st Show, which is a production of Illinois Public Media, airing on WILL in Urbana, WUIS in Springfield, WNIJ in Rockford-DeKalb, WVIK in the Quad Cities, and WSIU in Carbondale.

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