With the Du Quoin State Fair starting this Friday, manager Shannon Woodworth joins us to discuss this year's events.

Back from a missionary trip to Africa, Steve McKeown & Daniel Hilligoss, volunteers for Kindled Flame Ministries, join The Morning Newswatch.

Dr. John Jackson with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at SIU joins The Morning Newswatch to discuss the changing landscape of Illinois politics with the incoming administration as well as the nature of the two-party system in American Politics.