Community Invited To Help Decorate Holiday Hero Tree
There is no charge to decorate a bulb.
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NEWS
Highland Community College Holds Virtual Job Fair Nov. 17
Attendees will need to register for the free event.
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Trump, Biden Face Off In Less Chaotic Final Presidential Debate
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden met Thursday night for the final presidential debate.
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Pritzker Issues Most Serious Threat Yet To Bars, Restaurants That Defy Orders
Pritzker has repeatedly said bars and restaurants are among the most common identifiable locations where the virus is spread.
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Bars, Restaurants Across Illinois To Defy Pritzker’s New Restrictions
Pritzker said Wednesday that he would send the Illinois State Police.
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Why America Is Experiencing Two Very Different Economic Recoveries
Evidence suggests the disparity in unemployment stems in large part from the different ways states are approaching the coronavirus.
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OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty To Federal Criminal Charges In $8 billion Settlement
Nationally, the opioid epidemic has killed more than 232,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Illinois’ Largest Restaurant Group No Longer Supports COVID-19 Plan As Pritzker Threatens Liquor Licenses
The governor is threatening to take liquor licenses away from small businesses that don’t comply.
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Top Illinois Taxpayers Could Pay Close To 60 Percent Marginal Income Tax Rates Under Biden Tax Plan, State Progressive Income Tax Change
Get ready for 60 percent combined federal and state marginal tax rates if Joe Biden is elected president and Illinois voters approve the graduated income tax.
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Reports: Biden’s Tax Plan Would Increase Taxes Across The Board, Estimates Vary By How Much
If passed, Biden’s proposed tax increases of nearly $4 trillion over the next 10 years, “would be the highest in American history – indeed, in world history,
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Rental Owners Say They ‘Are Being Crushed’ By Eviction Ban Extension
“Our tenants are both working. We can’t evict them and we are losing money. We had to go into our savings to pay for the property taxes and mortgage. We are out about $30,000 since January 2020.”
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Pritzker Ranks Near Bottom Of National Nonprofit’s Ranking Of Governors
The scorecard ranked America’s 50 governors based on policy performance and executive leadership before and after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Judge Denies Pritzker’s Motion To Vacate Clay County Ruling
The case claimed Pritzker had exceeded his executive authority during the pandemic.
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Nearly Every Other Hospital Bed Open In Northwestern Illinois Region Where Added Restrictions Continue
At no point in the pandemic have hospital beds statewide reached max capacity.
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Several New Businesses In Stephenson County Opening / Relocation
We now have the 18th woman-owned auto garage in the country. How about that.
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