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Governor JB Pritzker announced another $15 million to support the state's communities and tourism sites hit the hardest by the pandemic.

Scattered showers and storms are possible again Sunday morning, but it's mostly focused in southeast Missouri and southern Illinois.

With ten different species of shark and four species of rays, people visiting the aquarium can touch them in the Shark and Ray Touch Pool.

The Calhoun County Classic is a hidden gem of a ride with 360 degrees of green pastures, orchards, and rivers over rolling whispering roads. Push

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The decision is a major victory for parks boosters and Attorney General Eric Schmitt.

CHICAGO — Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) today issued 28 additional Conditional Adult Use Dispensing Organization Licenses to applicants selected in three lotteries for 185 licenses. These awardees join the 149 conditional licenses issued by the Department on July 22, bringing the total number of issued licenses to 177. The Department’s Adult Use Cannabis webpage has been updated to include today’s awardees. Of the businesses selected for licenses, 41% are majority Black-owned, 7% are majority White-owned, and 4% are majority Latino-owned, while 38% of awardees did not disclose the race of their owners. All businesses qualify as Social Equity Applicants under the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act. “These 177 licenses represent 177 individual but powerful steps toward addressing the decades of injustice preceding cannabis legalization , and I’m proud to help foster an industry that

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QUINCY - Several area students are on the Quincy University 2022 Spring Dean's List. Honorees must earn a semester grade point average of at least 3.5 (on a 4.0 scale) to be included in the biannual Dean's List. In total, 342 students received the honor during the Spring 2022 semester. A complete list of honorees is listed below. The area students are as follows: Carrollton Cameryn Varble Edwardsville Margaret Brumback Godfrey Haley Milazzo Granite City Morgan Tanksley Jerseyville Ryleigh Jones

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LGBTQIA+ communities have been contributing to St. Louis’s history for centuries. Now the Gateway to Pride virtual exhibit will begin to uncover the rarely-shared or

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BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups is a legendary St. Louis live music venue presenting world class Jazz, Blues, R&B, Soul and Americana along with southern-inspired

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For some people who live in East St. Louis, Saturday is the first day they've been able to get back into their neighborhoods.

The city will open a third recovery center for residents to pick up essentials.

Matthew Nikolai, 17, lived in the Hill neighborhood of St. Louis.