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Illinois quick hits: Median personal income down from 2021
Regional Media News - Iowa
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July 10, 2025
Median personal income down from 2021 Illinois’ median personal income for 2023 was $115,000, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau Thursday. That ranks 19th among all states. Illinois’ ranking is up two spots from 2013 where...
Northwestern highlights research efforts through ‘Research Matters’ campaign
The Daily Northwestern - Illinois
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July 11, 2025
Amid a $790 million federal funding freeze, Northwestern’s Office for Research and Office of Global Marketing and Communications have launched “Research Matters,” a campaign to highlight research across NU’s community and improve science...
Company achieves 'technological milestone' with facility built to solve critical issue with modern construction: 'A commitment to the future'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 11, 2025
"True innovation isn't just about progress, it's about purpose." by Veronica BoothJuly 11, 2025 Photo Credit: Getty Images Concrete company Ozinga is building North America's largest low-carbon cement mill, which will help curb the harmful...
Infusing mitochondria helps renew tissues deprived of blood: research
The Hindu
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July 11, 2025
James McCully was in the lab extracting tiny structures called mitochondria from cells when researchers on his team rushed in. They’d been operating on a pig heart and couldn’t get it pumping normally again. McCully studies heart damage prevention...
A Major Win for Illinois’ Clean Energy Economy
103.1 KFIL - Minnesota
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July 11, 2025
Big announcement from the Illinois Governor's office as a major clean energy company is relocating to the state. Major Win for Illinois' Clean Energy Economy According to the press release, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic...
Science, scripture & Scopes: 100 years since Dayton, Tennessee trial captivated the nation
WTVC - Tennessee
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DAYTON, Tenn — 100 years ago this week, a trial Dayton, Tennessee was the center of the world's attention. A biology teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution to his students. The jury wound up...
Shortstop? Pitcher? Which position will the Chicago White Sox target with the No. 10 pick in the MLB draft?
Chicago Tribune - Illinois
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July 11, 2025
Chicago White Sox director of amateur scouting Mike Shirley believes high school shortstops are the strength of the upcoming Major League Baseball draft. “You should probably get ready for the trend of how youth baseball is being defined today...
Jefferson's Emma Hill Named to Eastern Illinois University's dean's list
JacksonHerald Today - Georgia
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Emma Hill, of Jefferson, has been named to Eastern Illinois University's spring 2025 dean's list in recognition of academic excellence. Majoring in Career & Technical Education: Family & Consumer Sciences Education, Hill is among fewer than 900...
NASCAR’s Mike Forde reveals details behind Ross Chastain-Joey Logano Chicago incident review
On3
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July 10, 2025
Mike Forde, NASCAR’s managing director of racing communications, shared details on the governing body’s review of the incident between Ross Chastain and Joey Logano at Chicago. On the Hauler Talk podcast, Forde said NASCAR was still reviewing the...
Healthcare & Life Sciences Private Equity Deal Tracker: HealthpointCapital Acquires ImmersiveTouch
JD Supra - California
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July 10, 2025
HealthpointCapital has announced the acquisition of ImmersiveTouch. ImmersiveTouch, founded in 2005 and based in Chicago, is the developer of suite of solutions for surgical planning and skills training using virtual and augmented reality....
Jacob Rapps of Geneseo, Illinois, Named to University of Arkansas Chancellor's List
River Cities' Reader - Iowa
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July 10, 2025
FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS (July 10, 2025) — The University of Arkansas is recognizing students for making the Spring 2025 Chancellor's List. Jacob Rapps of Geneseo, Illinois, joins a prestigious group of students who have attained a 4.0 grade-point...
Sheldon H. Jacobson: You cannot ‘restore’ high scientific standards if they are already in place
Pioneer Press - Minnesota
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July 10, 2025
President Donald Trump’s executive order “Restoring Gold Standard Science” provides a directive to restore a higher standard for scientific research and discovery. Yet despite the concerns it raises, the very standards that it describes already...
High-tech CTA support center gives Chicago police tools to fight crime
NBC 5 Chicago - Illinois
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Chicago police are leveraging additional tools and staffing resources inside of a high-tech CTA support center, giving them new tools to fight crime on trains and buses. On one wall, officers are able to view a series of monitors showing various...
180 more Illinois ZIP codes at high risk for pediatric lead poisoning, state health officials say
Chicago Sun Times - Illinois
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July 10, 2025
Many Illinois ZIP codes have been added to a state health department list that requires children be tested for lead exposure. The Illinois Department of Public Health added 180 ZIP codes across 47 counties, roughly 13% of the state, to the list on...
Boston battery maker Pure Lithium to relocate to Chicago
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Battery manufacturer Pure Lithium Corp. said Thursday that it will relocate its operations from Boston to Chicago. The company, founded in Boston four years ago, is developing electric batteries without graphite, nickel, cobalt, or manganese. That...
Battery maker Pure Lithium moving to Chicago, investing $46M
Chicago Sun Times - Illinois
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July 10, 2025
Battery startup Pure Lithium will relocate from Boston to Chicago and invest $46 million to expand in the city’s growing tech hub, the company announced on Thursday. The maker of lithium metal batteries will launch in Fulton Market this fall and...
‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump Cuts
Scientific American
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July 9, 2025
‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump Cuts A protest at a congressional office building highlighted future research findings that vast cuts to science will erase By Jenna Ahart & Nature magazine Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. | A few dozen...
This Chicago Fire Pregnancy Bothers Me More Every Time I Think About One Major Character Detail
Screen Rant
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July 10, 2025
Pregnancy can be a joyous experience for a week or two, but Chicago Fire celebrated Stella’s surprise bun in the oven while frustratingly ignoring a character detail that made her adoption story so important. Even more bothersome, since the reveal...
No ordinary solidarity — inside Chicago’s hunger strike for Gaza
Waging Nonviolence
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July 10, 2025
Ash Bohrer sat in a wheelchair outside of the Chicago Federal Plaza, where they had been arrested for refusing to leave Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s office hours earlier — and where six Jewish Voice for Peace-Chicago organizers had launched a hunger...
Cash in black carp for $100 and help invasive species research
Stuttgart Daily Leader - Arkansas
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July 10, 2025
LITTLE ROCK — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Illinois Department of Natural Resources are mapping the spread of invasive black carp throughout the Mississippi River Basin through a program called “Keep, Cool, Call.” Arkansas anglers may...