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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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Affordable housing issues often get media attention when property prices soar due to spiking economic development or when property prices tumble due to...
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Last summer, Chantil was forced to leave the townhome she shared with her two daughters and her mother in Des Plaines. (We’re withholding Chantil’s last...
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Crumbling sidewalks, gas line failures and cracked concrete — the problems at Brookfield Zoo are a metaphor for what’s wrong with public infrastructure...
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Illinois could save millions of dollars on incarceration costs if the federal ban on Pell Grants for inmates was lifted, according to a new report from...
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Weasle Forsythe is an information assurance apprentice with SuprTEK, a government contracting firm in O’Fallon, Illinois, outside of St. Louis. In the...
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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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Illinois’ population loss could be a warning for larger changes to come. Between July 2017 and July 2018, Illinois lost more than 45,000 people,...
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Like many people coming out of prison, Perry Cline never thought he’d get a college degree. “I thought I was just going to be another bum in the streets...
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The need for new or repaired roads, bridges, buildings and other infrastructure in Illinois continues to outpace the amount of funding available to...