From Illinois Business Journal: IDOT’s Economic Development Program provides state assistance for road improvements to accommodate access to new or expanding industrial, manufacturing or distribution companies. Funding will include preliminary engineering, construction, construction engineering and contingencies. The primary focus of the program is the creation and retention of permanent full-time jobs. The City of Peru, […]
We got new poverty figures today from the Census Bureau, and the news was mixed: Using the old, official measure, the poverty rate was down 0.4 percentage points, dropping from 11.5% to 11.1%. However, using the shiny new SPM, the poverty rate was up 0.5 percentage points, rising from 12.4% to 12.9%. The SPM is ...continue reading "Chart of the day: Poverty in America"
From The New York Times: Seven years after flames engulfed Grenfell Tower, a public housing block in West London, killing 72 people, a public inquiry on Wednesday blamed unscrupulous manufacturers, a cost-cutting local government and reckless deregulation for the disaster, Britain’s worst residential fire since World War II. The 1,671-page final report laid out a […]
A long-lost Tom Petty documentary from the '80s will be hitting theaters in time for what would have been the rocker’s 74th birthday. Tom Petty: Heartbreakers Beach Party followed Petty and…
The shooting Aug. 31 was the third time in less than two years that Michael Tolden had pulled his gun on suspected thieves but the first time he killed someone.
From St. Louis. Business Journal: ArchKey Solutions, the Fenton-based electrical and technology contracting company, is being acquired by an investment firm launched by billionaire sports team owner Josh Harris. New York-based private equity firm One Rock Capital Partners LLC, which invested in ArchKey alongside the company’s management team in 2021, has agreed to sell the […]
From Construction Dive: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has continued its focus on discrimination and harassment in the construction industry, settling three lawsuits against building firms in recent weeks for a combined total of more than $2.9 million. The agency settled a racial harassment and retaliation suit against Sorrento, Florida-based plumbing and HVAC contractor J.A. […]
A man faces felony charges for public indecency he allegedly committed at a convenience store in Fairview Heights shortly after he had applied for a job at the store, police say.
Mötley Crüe is returning to some of the Los Angeles venues that launched their career.The rockers just announced a series of intimate shows on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood, starting with the Troubadour…
On this Day, Sept. 10, 1950 ...Joseph Anthony Pereira, better known as Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry, was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Perry, along with Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Joey Kramer and guitarist Ray Tabano, formed Aerosmith…
Japanese people have used silk to create items of clothing and decorative works of art for hundreds of years, ever since the cultivation of silkworms was introduced to Japan from […]
The Work of Art: The Federal Art Project, 1935–1943 presents a remarkable group of artworks that reflect the creative efforts of artists working under difficult circumstances. During the Great Depression, […]
Dallas-based artist Tamara Johnson is known for her witty, hypernaturalistic sculptures depicting ubiquitous household objects, from colanders, hair clips and garden hoses to an array of buffet treats, brought together […]
Welcome to this day in history, September 10th! 2008 - The Large Hadron Collider Starts Up On September 10, 2008, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) successfully powered up the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for the first time. Located near Geneva, the LHC is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. This monumental event marked a significant leap in our understanding of particle physics, aiming to answer fundamental questions about the universe, such as the nature of dark matter and the existence of parallel universes. 1977 - Last Execution by Guillotine in France In a macabre chapter of history, France conducted its last execution by guillotine on September 10, 1977. Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant convicted of murder, was the final person to meet this fate. This event symbolized the end of an era, as France abolished the death penalty in 1981, becoming one of the last Western European countries to do so. 1945 - Mike the Headless
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