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People Come Up With Hilarious Memes After Walmart Employee Quits Company, Speculate About New Job

“10-year associate Morris, Illinois 8-4-4, signing out, good night," and just like that, this former Walmart employee started a new life.

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Illinois finished at the bottom of a worse-than-ever Big Ten West — now that’s saying something

It’s OK that the Illini are missing out on the postseason. Nobody needed to see them play again.

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Chicago outdoors: Wondering on a sturgeon mount, cemetery buck, low turkey harvest

A buck wandering a Chicago cemetery, wondering about the whereabouts of a sturgeon mount and Illinois’ low fall turkey harvest are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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Dubuque, known for its natural beauty, embraces murals

The Iowa city on the Illinois border has about 60 murals painted by artists from around the country, with a few Chicago connections.

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Black Panthers’ legacy, image at issue in feud over historic sites

A push to memorialize the Illinois Black Panther Party on the National Register of Historic Places has advanced to the national level.

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U.S. egg producers conspired to fix prices from 2004 to 2008, an Illinois jury ruled

The federal jury found that the egg suppliers exported eggs to reduce the overall supply in the domestic market and engaged in other practices such as early slaughter to limit supply.

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Former Illinois State Senate President James ‘Pate’ Philip dead at 93

The Republican Senate president was known for his influence in state government and often controversial blunt comments.

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Justice reform groups partner with Vic Mensa’s pot company to provide care packages to people released from jail

The packages are co-branded with the logos of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice and the rapper’s cannabis company, 93 Boyz.

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Ford Cuts Dealer EV Requirements Again (Updated)

The automaker is reducing the number of chargers that dealers are required to install and is cutting training costs by half after losing a dispute in Illinois.

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If some Republicans had their way, my twin sons wouldn’t be here: Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs

In Illinois, some right-wing groups want to ban in vitro fertilization. Because of these zealots, in January our governor and state lawmakers enacted a law protecting people’s decisions to use IVF to have children.

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No Shot Clock, Ep. 157: Preseason sleepers and storylines

Michael O’Brien and Joe Henricksen’s weekly breakdown of Illinois high school basketball.

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The cost of caring for nursing home patients has skyrocketed, but Illinois’ Medicaid reimbursement hasn’t kept up

The state has essentially said “do more with less,” and we have, but there comes a point when stretching a dollar eventually tears it in two, a nursing home administrator writes.

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COVID-19 hospitalizations are up 17% ahead of busy holiday travel week for Illinois

A record number of people are expected to use Illinois’ airports during the Thanksgiving week as COVID-19-related hospitalizations have surged — prompting experts to warn travelers to take precautions.

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Pretrial Fairness Act is shifting the scales of justice for Illinois

Pretrial justice is the key to upholding accountability and ensuring public safety, a former prosecutor and victim advocate writes. It should be based on community safety, not the size of someone’s bank account.

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Illinois governor ‘deeply concerned’ by Trump rhetoric reminiscent of Nazi era

JB Pritzker, who’s of Jewish descent, says Trump ‘is dangerous for our democracy’ and ‘dangerous for specific minority groups in US

The Independent UK

Do snitches net fishes? Scientists turn invasive carp into traitors to slow their Great Lakes push

State and federal wildlife agencies have developed a new weapon to slow down invasive carp across the Great Lakes region: traitor fish

The Independent UK

Another Republican accuses McCarthy of violence after elbow incident

‘Wham! I get shoulder-checked,’ former Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger said

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago outoors: Great egret detail, IL lake sturgeon, Bassmaster’s 1st “Million Dollar Man”

Paul Vriend photographing a great egret in flight, Illinois’ effort to reestablish lake sturgeon and Bassmaster’s 1st “Million Dollar Man,” Larrry Nixon retiring from competitive fishing are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

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Opening day morning: Illinois’ firearm deer season

One of the mildest opening days made for an interesting beginning to Illinois firearm deer season.

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Illinois Commerce Commission steps up for natural gas customers

The commission’s decision will put money back into the pockets of ratepayers.

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FDA is screening US cinnamon imports after more kids sickened by lead-tainted applesauce

At least 34 children in 22 states, including Illinois, have reportedly been sickened by lead poisoning.

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Holiday hordes? Record number of Thanksgiving travelers expected at O’Hare and Midway: ‘Travel’s coming back’

With 2.4 million travelers hitting the roads, Illinois is also nearing a record number of people traveling by car this Thanksgiving season, according to AAA.

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Blackhawks’ Alex Vlasic achieving NHL dream not far from where he dreamed it

The 22-year-old defenseman, who grew up in suburban Wilmette, appears destined to become just the fifth Illinois native ever to get drafted by the Hawks and go on to play at least 100 games with the organization. “[I’m] really never homesick,” he said.

The Independent UK

Illinois earmarks $160 million to keep migrants warm in Chicago as winter approaches

Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois will funnel an additional $160 million to help get migrants on their feet in Chicago

Chicago Sun-Times

Regulators cut Peoples Gas rate hike, pause funding for over-budget pipe replacement program

The Illinois Commerce Commission voted to slash the utility’s pipe replacement budget for 2024, paused the program and ordered an investigation into the spending that Chairman Doug Scott said ‘is not justified.’

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