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PONTOON BEACH – The Illinois Department of Transportation announces a lane closure on IL 162 at the I-255 interchange beginning on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, weather permitting. Two-way traffic will be maintained by the use of temporary traffic signals. This closure is needed to perform bridge maintenance and it should be completed by mid-November 2022. Drivers are urged to reduce speed, be alert for changing conditions, obey all construction signage, and refrain from using mobile devices while approaching and traveling through the work zone. The contractor on this project is Venus Painting Co. of Valparaiso, Indiana. For IDOT District 8 updates, follow us on Twitter at @IDOTDistrict8 or view area construction details on IDOT’s traveler information map on GettingAroundIllinois.com.

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Clayton-based Keeley Properties is proposing the seven-story complex at 201-215 N. Meramec Ave. and 8015 Pershing Ave.

ST. LOUIS - "Pirate Quest for the Sunken Treasure," a family-friendly adventure, is open daily through October 31, 2022, with after-hours trick or treating on Fridays and Saturdays, October 21 & 22, and October 28 & 29. On the exciting treasure hunt inside the Aquarium, guests will take a self-guided tour through a highly themed wonderland of pirate ship scenes and treasure caves and grottos. Social media fans will love the Instagram-worthy photo opportunities throughout the transformed Aquarium during their journey. Visitors follow the quest's clues as they make their way through all of the marine habitats and hands-on animal adventures at the Aquarium. Along the way, they will find the Pirate Captain's journal containing treasure hunt hints as well as amazing animal facts and pirate jokes. Guests will explore elaborate scenes, including the Captain’s Quarters, a Shipwreck Canyon, and the Treasure Grotto. A spooky Secret Cave, Pirate Library, and a Pirate Hideout add to th

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GREENVILLE, IL - Greenville University invites potential students to campus for Scholarship Day, an opportunity to earn up to a full-tuition scholarship and the chance to get to know campus before their fall 2023 semester. One hundred percent of traditional undergraduates at GU receive institutional financial aid, and on November 18, students who attend Scholarship Day could earn one of the multiple full-tuition scholarships available. GU’s average financial aid package is $22,000 and all students who attend Scholarship Day are guaranteed to come away with a sizeable scholarship offer. All students have the opportunity to come to campus the day before and spend the night in the residence halls and interact with current GU students and faculty. Students interested in pre-nursing also have the option to tour the HSHS Holy Family Hospital nursing center Friday morning. Check-in for Scholarship Day begins at 8:30 am on Friday, November 18, at the Crum Recreation Center on campus.

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GRANITE CITY - Granite City Community Unit School District #9 announced a date change for the November Board of Education Meeting. Originally scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 6 p.m., there is no student attendance on that date and all buildings are closed for Election Day. Therefore, the BOE meeting will be moved to Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the James J. Greenwald Administration Building at 3200 Maryville Road. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. and will be streamed live on the GCSD9 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GCSD9.net . For more information about Granite City School District #9, visit www.gcsd9.net .

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Will Rolling Stones fans finally get to hear some new music in 2023? That's the word from U.K. tabloid The Sun, which reports that an unnamed source has confirmed that…

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CHICAGO — As part of an ongoing effort to carefully roll back Illinois’s COVID-19 executive orders, Governor Pritzker today updated masking and testing requirements for healthcare facilities and long-term care centers. These new guidelines, which go into effect today, are in line with updated Center for Disease Control recommendations. Federal requirements remain in effect for those facilities. “Thanks to the tremendous efforts of our health care workers and residents, Illinois has done better at keeping our people safe with vaccines, boosters, and masking, which puts us in a position to continue to scale back health care requirements in line with the CDC,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “COVID-19 is on its way to becoming endemic, like the flu, but it still poses a real threat to our immunocompromised and disabled communities. Here in Illinois, we look out for one another—it’s what defines us as Illinoisans. Let us continue to live up to those

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CHICAGO – Parents and caregivers need to beware of more than just ghosts and goblins this Halloween. According to the Illinois Poison Center (IPC), accidental poisonings from Halloween candy are rare, but IPC manages cases each year involving dry ice, glow sticks, and more. “It is very rare to get poisoned from Halloween candy, but parents should still check their child’s candy as a safety precaution, especially with the recent increase in the use of candy-like products that contain THC or fentanyl,” said IPC Medical Director, Michael Wahl, MD. “While IPC doesn’t typically see poison incidents involving candy during this time of year, we do get calls about glow sticks, dry ice, and other potentially harmful items children eat.” Make sure Halloween is scary for the right reasons by following these safety tips from the IPC. Candy: Inspect your child’s candy after trick-or-treating. Discard candy with torn packages, holes, or opened

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ST. LOUIS – Dogtown Pizza is pleased to announce it’s a proud pizza provider of the St. Louis Blues and Enterprise Center . The partnership launched at the Blues season opener on Saturday, October 15, and provides Dogtown Pizza with three locations to sell their pizzas at all Blues home games and Enterprise Center events. “We are thrilled to welcome Dogtown Pizza to the St. Louis Blues family,” said Eric Stisser, VP of Corporate Partnerships at the St. Louis Blues. “Pizza and sports are a perfect match. We look forward to working together and positively impacting the game day experience for all sports fans.” The family-owned pizza company will always have cheese and pepperoni pizza at the arena and will rotate between other varieties. Fans can order half a pizza, which comes with its own box. What makes the pizza St. Louis-style is the thin crust, ingredients to the edge, and that classic tangy cheese St. Louisans love. “As lifelong

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ALTON - The City of Alton , Three Rivers Project of Sierra Club Illinois , and the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center (NGRREC) is calling for volunteers to help plant trees in many different Alton parks throughout autumn, the first of which will be at the Alton Marina and along Broadway Street, in downtown Alton on Monday, October 17. Building on a successful spring tree planting project, Alton is planting trees across the city thanks to a Recover, Replant, Restore! (RRR) grant secured by NGRREC from Trees Forever and the Swarovski Waterschool, along with private foundation funding obtained by the Three Rivers Project. The City of Alton secured additional support for this project from Ameren Illinois’ “Right Tree Right Place” program. To volunteer at the first tree planting session, RSVP at https://fb.me/e/232rJLQK7 . “The Recover, Replant, Restore! grant is funded through a partnership between Trees Forever, the Illinois Department o

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Wands at the ready, St. Louis. Another one of those pop-up experiences is coming to St. Louis (you know, the ones like the rude-staff-reigning Karen’s Diner, The Neverland Bar, and so on) and this time, it’s positively magical. [content-3] The Wizard’s Brunch brings all things fantasy and magic to Orlando’s Event and Conference Centers South (4300 Hoffmeister Avenue, 314)-638-6660).

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COVID-19 has entered a new stage of super aggressive evolution: The pace of evolution is so fast that many scientists depend on Twitter to keep up. A month ago, scientists were worried about BA.2.75, a variant that took off in South Asia and spawned a cloud of other concerning sublineages. In the United States, BA.4.6 ...continue reading "We are awash in new COVID-19 variants"

Ameren has completed a $215 million infrastructure project for the St. Louis region nearly six months ahead of schedule.

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

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This October, slink over to the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House for some family-friendly insect fun!   From Oct. 1 to 30, the Butterfly House

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1972 Fischer/Spassky: The Match, its Origin, and Influence celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Robert “Bobby” Fischer’s historic win over the Russian Boris Spassky

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