For 19 years Mark McDonald has hosted PBS’s ‘Illinois Stories.’ From the Decatur Celebration and the Farm Progress Show to the storied Ferris wheels of Jacksonville; from Lincoln’s footsteps in Springfield to the historic barns of the Macomb area; from the river heritage of Quincy and Hannibal to the bounty of the richest farmland on earth, Mark McDonald takes us through a Central Illinois we thought we knew until we heard his stories of the people, places and events of Central IL.