(Credit: Victor Hilitski/For Illinois Answers Project)
Prediction market platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket rake in millions from wagers on sports and current events but pay nothing in state betting taxes and ignore regulations that govern online sportsbooks.
(Photo by Lylee Gibbs)
TRENDING STORIES
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI
/
AFP via Getty Images
A broad and erratic patchwork of severe weather rumbled across much of the U.S. on Sunday, dumping heavy snow in the Upper Midwest while damaging high winds swept across the Plains.
Majdi Mohammed
/
AP
Ohad Zwigenberg
/
AP
COMMUNITY VOICES - WEEKDAYS AT NOON & 10 PM, SATURDAYS CV-X AT 5 PM
Ko'u Hopkins
/
nprillinois.org
Ko’u Hopkins discuss the immigration story of UIS's Dr. Adrianna Crocker’s, her life under a dictatorship and her life in the United States.
-
Ayesha Rascoe plays the puzzle with KCUR listener Justin Marciniak and Weekend Edition Puzzlemaster Will Shortz. -
Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape German post-war and post-reunification political discourse. -
While Illinois is trying to keep the team in Chicago's suburbs, Indiana lawmakers are offering a plan to finance a new stadium -
The new rules for the independent military newspaper are the Defense Department's latest effort to put extraordinary restrictions on journalists covering the agency. -
The surveillance industry version of HG Wells' 1898 classic sci-fi novel stars Ice Cube, and won accolades for worst picture, actor, director and more. -
The strikes comes after the United States paused ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine due to the war with Iran. -
In South Carolina, some parents embrace vaccines, others opt out. Why do people make such different choices? A mix of politics, distrust and misinformation is pushing neighbors apart. -
One of Bolsonaro's doctors described the former Brazilian president's medical condition as "serious." -
Researchers looking at foodcrusts on the pottery shards of ancient humans say there's evidence of a wide variety of ingredients, indicating that they may have been experimenting with "recipes." -
Women charged with a crime in Senegal are at the mercy of a slow judicial process and prisons that may lack basic supplies. They also face stigma that robs them of familial and community support.
SOCIAL ACTION - THANKS FOR SHARING!
Rachel Curray
The proposed 0.5% sales tax increase would fund the new board. The effort came about in the aftermath of Sonya Massey's murder.
THE X FROM NPR ILLINOIS (91.9 HD3 and streaming)
Netflix
/
Netflix
There are two clear frontrunners in this year's best original song race, either of which would be a worthy Oscar winner. Diane Warren is also nominated, for the 17th time.
Kevin Winter/Getty Images
MORE OF THE LATEST...
Audio - Photos - Timelines
Start the day by adding NPR Illinois First Listen to your routine and hear the latest from the state capital.
21st century conversation
for the 21st state.
Weekdays 11 AM , Encore 11 PM
for the 21st state.
Weekdays 11 AM , Encore 11 PM
Conversations with neighbors, artists, and area business people along with events you might have missed.
Weekdays Noon and 10 PM
CV-X Saturdays 5 PM
Weekdays Noon and 10 PM
CV-X Saturdays 5 PM
Reporting from in and around Illinois.
Saturdays 9 AM, Sundays 3 PM
Saturdays 9 AM, Sundays 3 PM
Analysis & commentary on the events that made news this past week in Illinois state government & politics.
Fridays 12:30 PM, 7:30 PM
Saturdays 6:30 AM
Fridays 12:30 PM, 7:30 PM
Saturdays 6:30 AM
The citizen and student Journalism Corps or 'J-Corps' is a vision and project to identify and train people in communites throughout central Illinois to cover or increase coverage of under covered areas.
J-Corps
Locals talk entertainment for people who like pop culture.
Federal defunding
