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Rich Egger
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TSPR
The Prairie Hills Land Bank Authority will seek a $1 million federal grant to clean up the former Haeger Pottery property in Macomb.
Peter Hancock
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Capitol News Illinois
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Dr. Brian Curtis, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for OSF HealthCare, said last year’s surge in respiratory illness was due to a combination of influenza, COVID, and RSV. This year, it’s primarily the flu. -
Women’s Voices commentator Heather McIlvaine-Newsad is deeply concerned about the United States’ attack on Venezuela. -
Under the state’s Pretrial Fairness Act, probable cause alone is not enough to hold someone in jail before trial. -
One of the grants is for improving the Candy Lane corridor. The other is for construction of a multi-use path that would circle around the city. -
Public Works Director Alice Ohrtmann said the city is coming into the home stretch for the project.
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