On today's episode, Republicans unite in Milwaukee for their party's national convention, a budget expert explains how pensions are crowing out funding for some essential services in Illinois, plus a Shakespearean performer draws parallels to Survivor as Macbeth opens at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.

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