Illinois Rising is your weekend home for insight, analysis and policy solutions you won’t hear anywhere else.AM 560’s Dan Proft and experts from the Illinois Policy Institute break down the pressing political and policy issues affecting our state, and bring you the truth you need.If you’re tired of the spin from the political class, you’ll want to tune in to AM560 every Sunday at 3 p.m. to hear Dan and the Illinois Policy Institute provide the most honest commentary anywhere on state politics and policy.

This show is an infomercial for Jeannie Ives.  They have a panel of conservatives tripping over each other to attack straw men. They rail against the influence of special interest groups in Springfield, but their guest is the head of the manufacturers’ lobby. They blast unions because they support everyday Illinoisans, while trying to make us sympathetic to the bosses’ lobbyist. C’mon.     They are opposed to good middle class jobs simply because they are union. Paid for by a think tank, this is just marketing, and poorly done.

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If you are looking for far right hyperpartisan propaganda, you know you’ve found it when Dan Proft is involved (sadly Chicago trib). I prefer facts.

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Illinois Rising is your weekend home for insight, analysis and policy solutions you won’t hear anywhere else. AM 560’s Dan Proft and experts from the Illinois Policy Institute break down the pressing political and policy issues affecting our state, and bring you the truth you need. If you’re tired of the spin from the political class, you’ll want to tune in to AM560 every Sunday at 3 p.m. to hear Dan and the Illinois Policy Institute provide the most honest commentary anywhere on state politics and policy.

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"It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician friend Reed Hastings. Randolph and Hastings knew they’d have to take on Blockbuster, but what they didn’t anticipate was that their business model would take on network television and eventually change the entire movie industry.
This was an 8-year total war that left innumerable casualties in its wake: thousands of hollowed out buildings and economic losses in the billions."

An 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.

This is Episode 1 of an 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician friend Reed Hastings. Randolph and Hastings knew they’d have to take on Blockbuster, but what they didn’t anticipate was that their business model would take on network television and eventually change the entire movie industry.This was an 8-year total war that left innumerable casualties in its wake: thousands of hollowed out buildings and economic losses in the billions.Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Business Wars

This is Episode 1 of an 8-part series on the brutal business battle between Netflix and Blockbuster, and later HBO.It all started around 1997, with a guy named Marc Randolph and his mathematician friend Reed Hastings. Randolph and Hastings knew they’d have to take on Blockbuster, but what they didn’t anticipate was that their business model would take on network television and eventually change the entire movie industry.This was an 8-year total war that left innumerable casualties in its wake: thousands of hollowed out buildings and economic losses in the billions. Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Netflix vs Blockbuster - Sudden Death | 1

You don't have to like tennis to like this. There is so much to learn from how this rivalry made each player better. This series explores the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition.

A 7 part series on Federer and Nadal

In this series we explore the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition. Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Sports Wars

In this series we explore the unique tennis rivalry between Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal-- two very different players, both exceptional, in pursuit of perfection. Swiss-born Roger Federer was seemingly born with a racquet in his hand and at a young age he quickly masters the game, but what he needs to reach the top is to learn how to master his emotions. Meanwhile, Spaniard Rafael Nadal learns the game under the tutelage of his uncle Toni on the clay courts of Mallorca, where the decision to make him a left-handed player separates him early from his competition.  Support us by supporting our sponsors!

Federer vs Nadal - The Hothead | 1

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The best podcasts about ourselves as well as the world through the lense of Science. Specific topics include things about our brain, emotions to biology, physics and more!

Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully disorienting talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your existence.

TED Talks Science and Medicine

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth

Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy -- and our own self-awareness.

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It slices, it dices, now for just $9.99, you can have this diminished government

IL is better than this b/s*%t

iTunes Ratings

It slices, it dices, now for just $9.99, you can have this diminished government

IL is better than this b/s*%t

Illinois Rising

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