We’ll bring you the sounds from a program at Logan Correctional Center, a women's prison in Lincoln, Illinois, where incarcerated people there train service dogs that will one day assist their new owners with mobility or work in therapy settings.

Our partners at The Marshall Project discuss ways for people in prison to process grief, even in an environment that repels compassion.

We also learn about the stress of managing money inside prison, even if you’re making less than $20 a month.

We also highlight a new Chicago Sun-Times investigation showing the disturbing track record of Illinois’ new private prison health care provider.

The City of Chicago’s director of reentry answers questions from people in prison about how they can work to rebuild their lives once they’re released.

In the first hour of the show, we hear from men incarcerated at Sheridan Correctional Center about how to handle the often stressful holiday season on the inside.

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?"

It’s part of Prisoncast – our statewide journalism project made with and for people incarcerated in Illinois and their loved ones.

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.

He’s been locked up for nearly forty years.

And in that time he’s learned how to play piano – but he’s never been able to play for his mom.

So Prisoncast producer and editor Robert Wildeboer packed up a keyboard and drove to Pinckneyville prison – in Southern Illinois.

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Today is the move-out deadline for the last residents of the Chicago apartment building raided by federal immigration agents in early fall. A judge ordered the troubled South Shore building vacated, calling it a fire trap. She also appointed a manager to secure the property and help residents relocate. But tenants say that “help” was merely a check and a list of phone numbers to call. HOST: LABUZ

A new exhibit at the Chicago History Museum documents a long tradition of resistance in Chicago's Latino communities. That includes not just political activism, but also the daily work of maintaining culture.The exhibit is called Aqui en Chicago. It is a result of a protest organized by local high school students six years ago.. HOST: LANE

The State of Illinois runs an online auction year-round, giving bidders the opportunity to buy heaps of treasure from afar.People can purchase items as tiny as a set of earbuds or as big as a dump truck. HOST: LANE