Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka (R) Talks About

the State's Fiscal Crisis & Financial Reforms

From the Standard Club in Chicago:  We hear an address by State Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka. The Comptroller talks about the problems her department has in catching up on past due bills despite a recent surge in tax revenues. She also talks about the coming end of the last tax increase and what the loss of $5 Billion a year would mean to the ability to pay the state's bills.

Recorded June 4, 2013. 38 minutes.

Celebrating Ten Years:  November 2003

State Sen Barack Obama on Using Military Force, Security vs Privacy Rights, Reforming Social Security and Much More

Gems from Our Past:  As part of our tenth anniversary, we're looking back at some of the exceptional events and people we've covered. Next -- from November 2003, we show our one on one interview with then STATE SENATOR Barack Obama, as he was seeking the nomination for the US Senate. At the time of this interview -- State Senator Obama was not expected to win the nomination. Of course he went on to win election to the US Senate in November of 2004 -- and was elected the next president of the United States in November of 2008.

Recorded November  6,  2003. 30 mins.        

Celebrating Ten Years:  "About Illinois" Series

Showcasing Illinois' Environmental Treasurers: Cache River

From the House Chamber in the State Capitol:   From our "About Illinois" series -- we travel to deep southern Illinois to look at the massive wetlands that are a part of the Cache River area. The Cache River formed after glaciers pushed the Ohio River about 20 miles south, to its current location. When the glaciers melted, the former Ohio River channel, filled with water, creating a swamp of some 200,000 acres. This is the most northern of the "southern swamps" that dot the southern states. The Cache River looks as if it is the Louisiana Bayou, and also remains unknown -- even to many who were born and raised in Illinois. But it is the home to vast fauna, wildlife, and to trees that were 500 years old when Columbus came to America.

 Recorded June 2006  17 minutes

Celebrating Ten Years: Illinois Profiles In History

A Survivor Relives 1944's Battle of the Bulge &

Four Months of Being Held as a German Prisoner of War

From August 2006:  We offer an encore presentation of our interview with Dick Lockhart. An Army PFC at the time of the battle, he became a POW three days after the battle's fighting had commenced on December 16, 1944.

 Recorded August, 2006   35 mins.  

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