Voices is an annual radio series that showcases a wide variety of programs created or funded by the Illinois Humanities Council. The series is produced by 98.7WFMT, Chicago's Classical Experience.

 The 2007 Voices series aired from November 5th - December 29th and is available for streaming at WFMT.com. The 2007 series, produced and reported by Anne Glickman for the WFMT Radio Network, and edited and mixed in the studios of 98.7WFMT, featured:

• A migrant workers' oral history project in Southern Illinois' agricultural community of Cobden;
• The Spanish Language Odyssey Project, (Fundamentos de Educación en Humanidades), a year-long, classics-based course in the humanities for native Spanish-speakers;
• A vintage baseball game hosted by the Early American Museum in Mahomet, Illinois;
• A conversation about African American gentrification in Chicago's North Kenwood-Oakland community with Northwestern University Professor Mary Pattillo, author of Black on the Block;
• Velosophie, a cycling and reading and discussion program along the roads of Northern Illinois;
• A behind-the scenes look at Free Street Theater, a creative writing and performing community arts organization in Chicago;
• A conversation about genetics and privacy with Professor Lori Andrews, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology at Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago; and
• Folksongs of Illinois a comprehensive CD series that documents -- for the first time -- the folk, multi-ethnic, and vernacular music traditions of Illinois from 1800 to 1950.

In 2006, the series aired February 20 - April 15 and featured About Face Theatre's "Home Project," a play about gay youth homelessness; conversations at Ron's Barbershop in the Austin neighborhood in Chicago, part of a citywide program called Café Society; the history of the banjo as told through folk song at the Pekin farmer's market; an exhibition on American's food history in Taylorville; the story of the short but talented life of one of Illinois' first documentary photographers, Frank Sadorus and interviews with Chicago's African American dance legends.

The 2006 Voices The series was produced and reported by Jesse Hardman for the WFMT Radio Network (link to WFMT), and edited and mixed in the studios of 98.7 WFMT.

Voices: A Collection of Illinois Stories is underwritten by the Illinois Humanities Council. For more information, please contact Dimitra Tasiouras at 312.422.5580.