On today's episode, Illinois State University starts an initiative to help first-year, first-generation Latino students; families of people with Alzheimer's are hopeful as a drug that slows the disease's progression gets federal approval; plus hemp growers in Illinois push back against proposed regulations for the cannabis compound Delta-8.

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