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Floodwaters on the Illinois and Mississippi Rivers may be going down, but rain has continued to soak farmland around much of the state. More rain could...
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In one town in the Metro East, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, police are forcing landlords to evict tenants who have called for help...
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Illinois continues to lose residents, according to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau released in April. Overall, around 45,000 fewer people lived in...
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In the course of reporting my previous story on the gap between wages and the cost of housing, I spent time following a case manager with the Southern...
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The Quad Cities are divided by the Mississippi River along the Illinois-Iowa border. They all took a big hit during the 1980’s farm crisis, and were...
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In highly politicized times such as these, teachers are often warned to remain neutral in the classroom. But at a public primary school in Kewanee,...
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Perry Cline’s story is a remarkable one. He’s a formerly incarcerated 51-year-old man who overcame the odds to graduate from the University of Illinois...
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The push to legalize recreational marijuana in Illinois could get a jump-start early next year. State Sen. Heather Steans (D-Chicago) said she plans to…
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A recent Supreme Court decision limiting regulations for anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers in California could affect patients in Illinois. In the...