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ST. LOUIS - Across America, earthen flood levees protect big cities and small towns, wealthy suburbs and rich farmland. But the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees levees, lacks an inventory of thousands of them and has no idea of their condition, the corps' chief levee...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The political shotgun marriage of Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn was never what you'd call blissful. "Your first obligation is to the public," says Quinn, explaining his sharp break with Blagojevich after the two were re-elected together...
Evanston Leverages Accela Solutions ... Evanston, Illinois has launched Accela Automation as the city's e-government solution for delivering services to the public. Evanston will utilize Accela Automation primarily to expedite tracking and managing land-use activities...
62 percent of the recent growth in the Latino population has been through births, not immigration. ... Writing from my particular vantage point as a 52 year old baby boomer, these Latino numbers look pretty good. In addition, undocumented immigrants pay an estimated $7...
Back when this country was in the midst of the Great Depression, the government had the idea to create the Civilian Construction Corps in order to create jobs for the many unemployed people. ... It's ironic that 75 years later the state of Illinois has revived the "CCC."...
It’s not that Johnston officials are shaking over the possibility of an earthquake. But with the two tremors this spring in Illinois and Missouri, city leaders think it’s prudent to consider buying earthquake insurance, which some other Iowa cities already have.
The first annual awards honor both teens and parents working to prevent car crashes - the No. 1 killer of teens - providing grants for two youth traffic safety nonprofits NORTHBROOK, Ill., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Natalie Hayford, 16, of Andover, Minn., and Laura Marchetti...
SimmonsCooper -- one of the nation's leading supporters of mesothelioma cancer research -- has created a comprehensive video website featuring interviews with mesothelioma medical experts, patients and family members affected by mesothelioma, a rare cancer diagnosed in nearly 3,000 people every...
Revised AVMA Policy on Castrating and Dehorning Cattle Provides Additional Guidance for Managing Pain SCHAUMBURG, Ill., May 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has revised its policy on castration and dehorning of cattle to...
SCHAUMBURG, Ill., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) has reinforced its opposition to the use of double-deck trailers to transport horses and other equines by approving a new policy on the Humane Transport of Equines. The policy,...
