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After 56 years, 3 generations, family closing hardware storeNov 21, 2021 6:00 am - LAKE ZURICH, Ill. (AP) - A family business that spans three generations in Lake Zurich is ending its run after 56 years. Casper's True Value Hardware has been the place ...
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Rare family-owned Indiana moving company marks 100th yearNov 21, 2021 6:00 am - PERU, Ind. (AP) - Paul Guyer was 18 when he decided to start a moving company. It was 1921, and he had just two horses and a wagon to haul the ice and animal feed that c...
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Multiple deaths reported after SUV plows into Waukesha paradeNov 21, 2021 12:00 am - WAUKESHA, Wis. - An SUV sped through barricades and into a parade of Christmas marchers in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday, killing multiple people as it hit more than 20 ...
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Rittenhouse says he backs BLM, praises the 'most professional' guards at Vernon Hills juvenile centerNov 21, 2021 12:00 am - NEW YORK - Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted on charges stemming from killing two men and wounding another during the unrest that followed the shooting of a Black man ...
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Illinois State Museum debuts store with state-themed itemsNov 20, 2021 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A new store at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield will feature products from the state, along with state-themed souvenirs, specialty foods...
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Chronic Wasting stations open for deer season this yearNov 20, 2021 6:00 am - SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - Hunters heading out for firearm deer season in counties where chronic wasting disease has been detected need to know that deer check stations wi...
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Indiana environmental chief leaving for federal agency jobNov 20, 2021 6:00 am - INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The head of Indiana's environmental oversight department for the past five years is leaving that position for a job with the federal government. The ...
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Volunteers work to preserve legacies of Indiana's veteransNov 20, 2021 6:00 am - VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) - Upstairs in the McGrady-Brockman building of the Knox County Public Library, staff member Anne Hecht pulls a couple of aged 8x10 portraits of two ...
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Hundreds protest Rittenhouse acquittal in Chicago; Jackson warns of 'dangerous precedent'Nov 20, 2021 12:00 am - Hundreds more people gathered Saturday for a rally at Federal Plaza before hitting the streets to denounce the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse a day earlier on murder and ...
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Lawsuit could foil Illinois' ban on immigration detentionNov 20, 2021 12:00 am - CHICAGO - When Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Illinois Way Forward Act into law in August, he put the state squarely on the side of a growing movement against the federal...