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CHICAGO – The Illinois State Police (ISP) joins law enforcement agencies across the nation in the campaign to recognize October 15, 2022 as “Slow Down, Move Over Day.” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker issued a proclamation designating October 15, 2022 as Move Over Day in Illinois, which aligns Illinois’ law designed to promote safe driving behavior and encourage motorists to move over for all vehicles stopped on the side of the roadway. “This ‘Slow Down, Move Over Day,’ I am thinking about emergency responders, like Chicago Firefighter Lieutenant Scott Gillen, who lost their lives while saving others,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “These deaths are as tragic as they are preventable. And this day—and every day—I remind the great people of Illinois to support our first responders and our fellow motorists by slowing down and moving over.” ISP is committed to reducing traffic crash fatalities and limiting the risk of

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WASHINGTON, DC — Combat Veteran and U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) met this week with Ukrainian Soldier Oleksandr Chaika, who is receiving care at Medical Center Orthotics and Prosthetics (MCOP) in Silver Spring, Maryland. Duckworth and Van Hollen toured MCOP, met with Oleksandr and highlighted the continued need for U.S. support for the people of Ukraine. Photos from the meeting are available here . Oleksandr, a Ukrainian athlete, choreographer, acrobatics coach and teacher, joined the Ukrainian military shortly after Putin began his unjustifiable war on Ukraine. Oleksandr was deployed to the Luhansk region where he lost his leg to an explosive. Oleksandr has now received a prosthetic leg as part of MCOP’s Operation Renew to serve Ukrainian military personnel. “It was an honor to meet with Oleksandr—not just to be able to thank him for his sacrifices during Putin’s unjustifiable war, but also to speak

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Some leaders in the real estate industry are apologizing for past discrimination while promising to address problems that still remain.

As previously teased, Green Day has announced a Nimrod reissue in honor of the album's 25th anniversary. The package will be available as a three-disc CD and five-LP vinyl collection…

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This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. A Missouri judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday that argued a new law requiring Missourians present a government-issued photo ID to vote is unconstitutional.

Healthy and Hearty Brunswick Stew is a southern thing. Even so, my mother never made it. I was introduced to the stew by Debra, my Virginia-reared daughter-in-law. If you’ve even cooked the meat and vegetable combo, you know it’s most often includes shredded pork and chicken, baby limas, corn, potatoes, and tomatoes. Some versions are... 

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Work is moving ahead now to rehab the space, a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places that once housed the Beckley-Ralston Co. auto dealership.

This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. Reparations is often something people hear about in an international setting — such as ongoing reparations that are paid to Holocaust survivors or reparations South Africa paid to apartheid victims.

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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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

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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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Every weekend from Oct. 7 to 30, visitors to the City Museum can partake in shows from The Donniker Brothers Worlds of Mirth.   The

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Democrat Yadira Caraveo is painting her opponent Barbara Kirkmeyer as an extremist. Kirkmeyer is focused on inflation.

Before the ring of pinball machines echoed through arcades, Bagatelle was filling parlors and pockets across the world. Drawing from the private collection of Mr.

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Garry McMichael: Retrospective features photography, drawings and paintings spanning the art career of the late Garry McMichael, long-time resident artist at Green Door Art Gallery.

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Featuring architectural photography by Ken Konchel and mixed media jewelry by Lois Jacobs.   Ken Konchel has won 74 awards in juried exhibitions and art

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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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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact

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This exhibit showcases reproductions of the work of Missouri’s first known woman artist, Anna Maria von Phul. Her artwork illustrates life in the Missouri Territory

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Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi creates large-scale, figurative, and often text-based paintings, drawing from the tropes of history painting and cinema to probe systems of knowledge

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