Sean Crawford talks with Business Editor Tim Landis of the State Journal-Register.
* SDAT at 5: Five years this month since an outside planning team made a laundry list of improvements for revitalizing the commercial-historic district downtown. There has been progress on housing, TIF district extension. But less so on plazas, bike trails and the like.
* Agriculture and the Trump administration: Illinois farm groups pleased by the regulatory approach of the new administration; not so much on trade and immigration.
* Schuyler County Hog Farm: Controversy over a proposed commercial hog farm near Rushville has revived the issue of state. vs. local control of hog-farm siting.