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Girl Scouts of Central Illinois Receives $25,000 RISE Grant from Earthrise Energy
Newsbug.info - Illinois
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(Champaign) Girl Scouts of Central Illinois received a $25,000 grant from Earthrise Energy’s RISE Grant program. Funds from the RISE grant will be used to deliver outreach programming to 200 girls in Vermilion County. Girl Scouts provides...
Birth to Five Illinois makes presentation to Iroquois County Board
Newsbug.info - Illinois
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The Iroquois County Board heard about Birth to Five Illinois at the Aug. 12 meeting. Liz Gibson, regional council manager for Region 32 of Birth to Five Illinois, spoke to the board members about the agency. “We are here to take a couple of...
Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago Public Schools chief resists City Hall borrowing plan, pension payment as budget deadline looms
GMToday - Wisconsin
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CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools interim chief Macquline King is resisting pressure from Mayor Brandon Johnson to make a controversial pension payment and borrow millions of dollars to settle the district’s budget, a notable twist in what has...
Reader’s Voice: Stephanie Kifowit’s next move in Illinois
The Voice - Illinois
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August 13, 2025
August 11, 2025 Dear editor; I’ve made a big decision and wanted you to know. As you already know, I’m a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran, mom, and proud State representative. And now… I’m running to be your next Illinois comptroller! For more than two...
Illinois quick hits: Report shows rate of businesses leaving state
The Center Square
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August 12, 2025
Report shows rate of businesses leaving state Illinois businesses are moving to other states at triple the rate they did before the pandemic, according to new research from the Illinois Policy Institute. In 2023, 218 businesses left Illinois, more...
Trump’s Claims on Illinois Bail Reform, DC Crime Shown to Be False
Truthout
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August 12, 2025
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. While announcing plans to send National Guard troops into the country’s capital, the Trump...
Illinois to host first commercial lithium metal battery production facility
EV Engineering Online
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August 12, 2025
The Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) announced that Pure Lithium Corporation, a next-generation battery technology company, will relocate its operations from Boston to Chicago as it moves from R&D into commercial...
Ohio’s First Financial expands Chicago footprint in $142M deal
Banking Dive
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August 12, 2025
Dive Brief: Cincinnati-based First Financial Bancorp has agreed to buy Burr Ridge, Illinois-based BankFinancial Corp. in an all-stock transaction valued at $142 million, the companies said Monday. The transaction, expected to close in the fourth...
Trump kills union contracts for Chicago EPA workers
Chicago Sun Times - Illinois
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August 12, 2025
When hundreds of Chicago employees of the Environmental Protection Agency showed up at work Monday, their union protections were stripped by President Donald Trump Trump foreshadowed the move in March when he signed an executive order that...
Scientists Discover the Pancake Secret That Makes Vegan Eggs Irresistible
ScienceDaily
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As the demand for plant-based meat and dairy options grows, vegan burgers, nuggets, and beverages have been in the spotlight for sustainable protein alternatives. But unlike their meatless burger counterparts, plant-based eggs haven't received the...
No laughing matter: U of I researcher warns against recreational nitrous oxide misuse
Wand - Illinois
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - The recreational misuse of nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas," is nothing to joke about. A new study co-authored by University of Illinois Health & Kinesiology professor Rachel Hoopsick saw a sharp uptick in deaths linked to...
RFK Jr. is super mad he can't make other countries sabotage science
Daily Kos
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August 12, 2025
Like all richie-rich types who were born on third base but think they hit a triple, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is convinced not only that he got his current gig on merit but also that he is a genuine medical expert,...
Libertyville’s Jack Treutelaar, an elite long snapper, raises money for cancer research. ‘Take life as it is.’
Lake County News Sun - Illinois
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August 12, 2025
Libertyville senior Jack Treutelaar isn’t getting ahead of himself. Treutelaar, an elite long snapper, understands life is unpredictable. “I take life as it is, don’t think too much ahead, don’t think in the past and try to live life in the moment...
Chicago River canal could soon get a new name
Chicago Sun Times - Illinois
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August 12, 2025
More than 100 years ago, Chicago became home to an engineering feat: the flow of the Chicago River was reversed, diverting sewage from flowing into Lake Michigan, the city’s source of drinking water. The canal that made it all happen has since...
New research discovers the first known Latter-day Saint polygamist with Black ancestry
The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah
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While researching a book on her family tree, Latter-day Saint historian Jenny Hale Pulsipher discovered that one of her most prominent pioneer ancestors, who first settled Ogden and had long identified as white, had Black grandparents. Many modern...
AbbVie to invest $195 million in expanding Illinois facility
WICD - Illinois
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Governor JB Pritzker, AbbVie, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) have announced a significant $195 million investment by AbbVie to expand its manufacturing facility in North Chicago. This expansion aims to...
Trailer | Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
Cascade PBS - Washington
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August 12, 2025
Legendary Chicago comedy club Zanies, where anyone who’s anyone in standup (Seinfeld, Eddie Murphy, Kevin Hart) has appeared since 1978, is bringing out a new voice: Iranian American comic Sohrab Forouzesh. Legendary Chicago comedy club Zanies,...
More Illinois students would be deemed proficient in math, reading under proposed changes to cut scores
Chalkbeat
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Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. More students in Illinois would be considered proficient on the state’s annual math and reading tests under a proposal to change cut scores, which the...
Why reporters publicize the salaries of 300,000 public workers in Missouri and Illinois
St. Louis Public Radio - Missouri
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August 12, 2025
The salary of many public sector employees in our region is just a click away. The latest edition went live in late July. The database features about 300,000 names — of which about 100,000 are teachers in public and charter schools. For nearly a...
West Middle School introduces STEAM Academy
Rockford Register Star - Illinois
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ROCKFORD, IL — Hundreds of incoming sixth graders and their families gathered at West Middle School on Aug. 12, for an open house and the formal introduction of the STEAM Academy. The STEAM Academy is an educational program that focuses on...