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In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn about what is coming to the Champaign-Urbana area this weekend in the world of arts, culture and entertainment.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn about the CU One to One Mentoring Program and how it has helped some people in the area. 

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn how some Midwest states are trying to help small town grocery stores.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn how Trump’s funding cuts are hitting early-career researchers.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn how mass layoffs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture leave an uncertain future for researchers and rural areas.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn more about what’s coming to the Champaign-Urbana area in the world of art and entertainment.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn about NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge and what students and adults need to know before they submit.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll listen to a conversation with Professor Ollie Watts Davis, the founder and director of the U of I’s Black Chorus.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll listen to a conversation with a Northwestern University law professor who studies the powers of local government.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn about the first public bus tour that explored the Champaign County African American Heritage Trail this month.

Thursday, February 27, 2025 Today’s headlines: Gene Hackman, the Academy Award winning actor who was raised in Danville, has died. The Associated Press reports that Gene Hackman was born in California and grew up in Danville, where his father worked as a newspaper pressman for the Commercial-News. Some U of I students are worried about…

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn that transgender teens and their parents speak out after Lurie Children’s paused surgeries.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll listen to a conversation with artist Millie Wilson about their exhibit at the Krannert Art Museum that challenges historical representations of gender and sexuality.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn about a Ukrainian refugee family that fled their home country because of a war that started three years ago today.

In today’s deep dive, we’ll listen to a conversation with a Grammy-award-winning artist Isaiah Sharkey about his upcoming performance at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.