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Midwest Week: Illinois School Funding Uncertain

Now that the impasse over the Illinois state budget is over, a new impasse is over state funding for schools.

On Midwest Week, Herb Trix's guest is Dusty Rhodes, education reporter for Illinois Public Radio.

You can also hear Midwest Week on WVIK Fridays at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered. 

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.