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Another offseason won, so what are the realistic expectations for the Chicago Bears in 2025?
Windy City Gridiron - Illinois
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June 6, 2025
The Chicago Bears and their fans have become no strangers to “winning” the offseason over the last few years. When general manager Ryan Poles took the reins of this franchise in 2022, he quickly ripped the band-aid off a roster that was one of the...
Inside Illinois’ 2026 budget: spend now, squeeze more, solve later
Illinois Policy
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June 6, 2025
State lawmakers built Illinois’ record $55.2 billion budget for 2026 on gimmicks, one-time fixes and piecemeal tax hikes. They left pension debt, transit cliffs and real reform for another day. Illinois state lawmakers eked out a budget for 2026...
Ford County Chronicle named best large nondaily newspaper in Illinois
Ford County Chronicle - Illinois
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June 6, 2025
EAST PEORIA — The Ford County Chronicle won 29 awards — nine more than its closest competitor — to claim the coveted Will Loomis Memorial Trophy, which recognizes the best large nondaily newspaper in Illinois, in the Illinois Press Association’s...
Tillamook Opens Illinois Ice Cream Plant
Food Manufacturing - Wisconsin
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June 6, 2025
The maker of Tillamook brand dairy products announced Thursday that it has officially started production at a new ice cream plant in central Illinois. The Decatur facility represents the Tillamook County Creamery Association's first plant outside...
Nuclear power making headlines in Illinois even as lawmakers don’t vote to lift moratorium
103.5 ESPN Southern Illinois
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June 6, 2025
FILE – In this March 16, 2011 file photo, steam escapes from Exelon Corp.’s nuclear plant in Byron, Ill. (AP Photo/Robert Ray, file) By KEVIN BESSLER Illinois Radio Network SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (IRN) — Illinois generates more electricity from nuclear...
The Rundown: Why is Chicago violence declining?
WBEZ - Illinois
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June 6, 2025
Good afternoon! The Tony Awards are this Sunday, and productions with Chicago ties are well represented among the nominees. Here’s what else you need to know today. 1. Why is Chicago violence plummeting? Some credit street outreach workers. There...
How A Vintage Malört Bottle Made It From Tennessee Back To Chicago
Block Club Chicago - Illinois
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June 6, 2025
CHICAGO — After he posted a picture of five antique bottles of liquor on Reddit, Ben Cissell received a multitude of messages. Many people asked if he was willing to sell what he just posted on the whiskey subreddit, and to name a price. Some...
AI Race Brings Energy Reliability Back into Spotlight
Oil Price
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June 6, 2025
Artificial intelligence is all over the media—and so is its energy consumption, which is spurring something of a new tech race. That race, however, besides innovation, includes some simpler moves, such as a return to a kind of power generator that...
Why Centrus Energy Stock Soared Higher This Week
The Motley Fool USA
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June 6, 2025
Shares of Centrus Energy (NYSE: CCJ) are moving higher this week. The company's stock was up 11.5% at 1:08 p.m. ET from last Friday's close. The S&P 500 index and the Nasdaq-100 index were up 1.2% and 1.8%, respectively, at the same time. Centrus,...
Putting Seed Corn Production Under a Digital Microscope
Seed World
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June 6, 2025
The No. 2 U.S. spot in the Seed World Global Innovation Showdown goes to SeedTrax by Hubner Industries and IntelinAir. At a glance, seed corn fields look a lot like commercial corn fields, but anyone in seed production knows better. From emergence...
This Week In Cannabis: America's Crackdown Down On Hemp, Global Reform, Industry Gathering In Chicago
Benzinga
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A federal crackdown on hemp-derived cannabinoids advanced in Congress this week, triggering alarm across the $28 billion U.S. hemp industry. A House subcommittee approved a spending bill that would redefine hemp in a way that bans most...
“If you were to look at his amp settings onstage, you’d be like, ‘Why is he doing that!? Turn that down”: Lifeguard on adventures in sound and how they found the balance between abstract noise, raw punk-rock energy and pop hooks
MusicRadar
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June 6, 2025
Ripped And Torn, the debut album from Chicago trio Lifeguard, is the exhilarating sound of youth in revolt and in service to a very precise intention to take what might have been long-form improvisational noise – and all the electric guitar klang...
CertainTeed Expands Offsite Construction Solutions
LBM Journal
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June 6, 2025
CertainTeed®, a leading North American manufacturer of sustainable building materials, has announced an expansion to its serviceable geography for its offsite construction solution, ONE PRECISION ASSEMBLIES™ (OPA), into the southeast region, one of...
Palm rallies for the fourth consecutive week despite concerns over production and stock levels
World Energy News - Connecticut
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Malaysian palm-oil futures rose on Friday after reversing losses at midday to record a fourth weekly gain despite concerns about rising production and inventory levels. The benchmark contract for palm oil delivery in August on the Bursa...
Illinois estate tax law reform stalled amid bipartisan support
South West Illinois News
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June 5, 2025
State Representative David Friess (IL) | Representative David Friess (R) 115th DistrictState Representative David Friess (IL) | Representative David Friess (R) 115th District Illinois is facing significant challenges with its estate tax laws,...
Atlas Door Repair Expands 24/7 Emergency Services to Serve Commercial Centers Across Illinois and Florida
WFMZ - Pennsylvania
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Strategic multi-city expansion improves emergency response times and compliance for automatic and sliding doors in underserved regions PLAINFIELD, Ill. and LAKELAND, Fla. and INTERLACHEN, Fla., June 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlas Door Repair, a...
Sonoco expanding 4 US paper can manufacturing sites
Packaging Dive
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Dive Brief: Sonoco is investing this year in four U.S. facilities to expand manufacturing of its rigid paper cans with paper bottoms. The company did not specify the level of funding, but a spokesperson called it a multimillion-dollar investment....
BofA cardholders can enjoy free admission to 5 Chicago-area museums
CBS 2 Chicago - Illinois
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By Jeramie Bizzle Jeramie Bizzle Web Producer, CBS Chicago Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written...
Personal information leaked for nearly 1,000 people after phishing scam at Illinois Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services
Wand - Illinois
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Personal information for 933 people, including 564 Illinois residents, was compromised according to the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services. The department said that HFS was the target of a phishing...
CHSN to launch on Xfinity in Chicago area under new deal
FOX 32 Chicago - Illinois
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CHICAGO - The Chicago Sports Network (CHSN), the exclusive television home of the Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox, will become available to Comcast Xfinity customers across the Chicago area beginning Friday. As part of a new carriage agreement,...