Season 2021: Season 2021
From the Decatur Celebration and the Farm Progress Show to the storied Ferris wheels of Jacksonville; from Lincoln’s footsteps in Springfield and New Salem to the historic barns of the Macomb area; from the river heritage of Quincy and Hannibal to the bounty of the richest farmland on earth, Mark McDonald takes us through a Central Illinois we thought we knew.
Lincoln Land Community College Ag Center
LLCC just opened the doors of its new agriculture center.
Lincoln Land Community College Ag Center
Quincy Monuments: For Civil War Heroes
Volunteers has taken on the task of restoring the markers of civil war soldiers.
Quincy Monuments: For Civil War Heroes
The First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane
The author takes us to sites in Jacksonville to show the history of this institution.
The First Illinois State Hospital for the Insane
Residents of Montgomery County are celebrating the county’s 200th anniversary this year,
Montgomery County Courthouse
Fr. Gus Tolton, the first black Catholic priest in the U.S., on track as Catholic Saint
Tolton Memorial Plaques
The SIU School of Medicine is the home of an exquisite museum of medical history.
The Pearson Museum
MacMurray College Auction –Covid-19 finally knocked the wind out of this institution.
MacMurray College Auction
Springfield man whose collection of civil rights memorabilia goes back to the 1960's.
Civil Rights Collection
Finding Your Roots: Ancestry Special
This is like a local version of the popular PBS program, “Finding Your Roots."