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SPRINGFIELD - HSHS Hospice Illinois invites community members to join them for their 8 th annual Night of Remembrance ceremony on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at 6 p.m. Similar to the 2021 ceremony, this year will be a virtual candle lighting service via video to remember loved ones, to ease grief and celebrate the lives of those lost. Community members are invited to join the ceremony by lighting a candle at home while viewing the event virtually at hshshomecare.org/candle . For more information or questions, contact Valerie Engelbart, HSHS Hospice Illinois Volunteer/Bereavement Coordinator, at valerie.engelbart@hshs.org or call 217-685-0702.

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Somehow, Guns N' Roses have found a way to make "November Rain" even more dramatic. The "Welcome the Jungle" rockers have released a new version of the Use Your Illusion…

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CHICAGO – Governor JB Pritzker, together with the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) Division of Early Childhood (DEC), announced plans to further advance Illinois as the best state in the country for families to raise young children. The investments are aimed at supporting providers as they continue serving their local communities and easing financial burdens on working families. Illinois will enhance its continued investments in the state’s early childhood system in the following ways: Extending and expanding the Strengthen and Grow Child Care (SGCC) grant program through July 2023. These grants provide funding for eligible child care centers and homes. Extending Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) eligibility for job seekers through June 2023. Reclassifying some eligibility earned income to unearned income. This will enable more families to access CCAP benefits and make Illinois a leader in this area. “When I took office in 2019, I pledged to

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EDWARDSVILLE - The City of Edwardsville renewed the municipal electricity aggregation program this fall with a new supplier, Constellation NewEnergy. This is an “opt-out” program, meaning that residents will be enrolled in it automatically unless they choose a different supplier. Since the start of this program, the City’s goal has been to insulate residents from the continued rise in electric supply rates by joining other municipalities in a competitive bidding process among alternative retail electric suppliers. This process locks in the rate for a period of time, typically up to 24 months. Because the new aggregation term doesn’t begin until February, every participating household will return to Ameren, but only for two billing cycles before the new aggregation program starts. Each household will receive a notice from Ameren confirming the return for the two-month period. If you want to participate in the City’s aggregation program, simply do NOTHING

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Landowner George Despotis testified that Sunset Hills city attorney Bob Jones said the city ‘was not going to lose to this family again.’

St. Louis: The Foodie City St. Louis is noted for its many food “inventions.” Arguably, the most notable being toasted ravioli and gooey butter cake. At the 1904 World’s Fair in Forest Park, it’s believed that iced tea, cotton candy, and the ice cream cone got their start. Did you know that 7-Up was founded... 

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"While she was in jail [my sister and I] were able to build a relationship with her.”

OSF HEALTHCARE - For many adults, alcohol is part of unwinding after a stressful work week. There are the usual reminders about having a sober driver, knowing your limits and mixing in water between your beers. But experts are also warning about the dangers of excessive drinking or binge drinking, which is having several drinks on one occasion. Two recent studies shed light on the dangers. One reported that around one in five deaths among people aged 20 to 49 was attributed to excessive alcohol use. The other study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine linked binge drinking to problems like alcohol addiction, emotional symptoms and not getting along with friends, family and coworkers. This was true in study participants who didn’t even consider themselves heavy drinkers. The dangers How quickly can binge drinking turn problematic? “Very easily,” says Andrew Zasada, MD , an internal medicine physician at OSF HealthCare in Champaign County,

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Two men died Thursday afternoon after their car rolled for almost a block and crashed into several other vehicles in Dutchtown.

For the second time in less a month, thieves targeted a St. Charles strip mall by trying to ram a vehicle into a store.

A close ally of Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano has a plan that she claims will help win him the election and prevent voter fraud: She wants voters to cast their ballots “as late in the day as possible” on Election Day. Conspiracy theorist Toni Shuppe, who has ties to QAnon and who is rumored […]

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St. Louis Public Schools announced the Collegiate School of Medicine and Bioscience will resume classes Monday, two weeks after a mass shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. Classes at both schools have been canceled since students and teachers were evacuated on the morning of Oct. 24. Collegiate, which shares a campus with Central VPA, suffered significantly less damage in the deadly shooting. According to Superintendent Kelvin Adams, school leaders believe Collegiate students…

Two men admitted to an attempt to bring 100 pounds of methamphetamine to the St. Louis area from Colorado.

An 18-year-old man was shot and killed Friday morning in the city's Columbus Square neighborhood just north of downtown.

Because of the stakes, the Tuesday Nov. 8, 2022 midterm elections could be unlike any in American history.

Over several centuries, Indian artisans perfected complex methods for producing dyes and mordants to create painted and printed cloth in a spectrum of fade-resistant colors. Starting in the 17th century,

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Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young’s practice centers on installation-based work stemming from sound and music. He interweaves cultural paradigms across media while focusing on poetic translations between the sonic and

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Part of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ fall/winter exhibition, “Great Rivers Biennial” is a biannual collaborative initiative between the museum and the Gateway Foundation designed to foster artistic talent

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