Friday December 12, 2025

Patients in Illinois who are terminally ill will be able to request life-ending medication with a doctor’s prescription starting later next year. A proposed city-wide ban on the sale of hemp products now includes an exception for THC-infused beverages. The National Weather Service says snow is likely Saturday afternoon with evening wind chills near 20 below zero. Plus, We recently asked people in Illinois prisons this question: “If you could spend one afternoon on the outside with a family member or friend, where would you go and what would you do?" A man named Robert Jernigan wrote us saying he’d take his mother to her church, so he could play music and sing for her. For WBEZ’s statewide journalism project called Prisoncast!, producer and editor Robert Wildeboer packed up a keyboard and drove to Pinckneyville prison in Southern Illinois.