On today's episode, making high-speed rail twice as fast as it is now could be a gamechanger, according to advocates, but the idea has skeptics; there's a debate over what's causing all these dust storms in Illinois, a first-time state lawmaker gets a heavy dose of reality in their first year in Springfield, and OSF expands critical care in Bloomington.

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