Prohibition
Bottles of wine from Lynfred Winery in Roselle, Illinois.

Best of: Illinois winemakers push to change distribution laws

The Illinois wine industry is pushing to change a prohibition-era law to raise the maximum number of gallons of wine that Illinois wineries could sell themselves directly to restaurants. To talk about it, we were joined by the general manager of an Illinois winery and the executive director of a non-profit for vintners.

Bottles of wine from Lynfred Winery in Roselle, Illinois.

Illinois winemakers push to change distribution laws

The Illinois wine industry is pushing to change a prohibition-era law to raise the maximum number of gallons of wine that Illinois wineries could sell themselves directly to restaurants. To talk about it, we were joined by the general manager of an Illinois winery and the executive director of a non-profit for vintners.

The 21st—Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Today on the 21st: Dispensaries across Illinois have already sold millions of dollars in recreational weed and other cannabis products since New Year’s Day. And it’s all cash.

A second-grader works on an iPad.
(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Screens in Schools; Southern Illinois Prohibition Armies; CSA Market Change

In this special encore episode, we take you back to a conversation on tech in the classroom: should devices like Chromebooks and iPads be limited or actively used? Plus, when Prohibition became official in 1920, advocates wanted to make sure it was enforced. But that also had a darker side, including anti-immigrant violence supported by the KKK. Also, it’s been a tough few years for farmers who sell produce through CSAs, in part due to more competition from big grocery stores and others cashing into the local food market. We look at how farmers are adapting and what policymakers can do to help.

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