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The History of Valentine's Day Traditions

4 months 2 weeks ago
A holiday famous for hearts and romance may have started with a lottery where young men drew women’s names from a box. That story isn’t the whole truth, but it points to something real: Valentine’s Day traditions have never been fixed. They’ve shifted from ancient festivals to church legends to handwritten notes, and then to candy aisles and social media posts. The result is a day that feels timeless, even though many of its “classic” customs are surprisingly

Orchid Show

4 months 2 weeks ago

On display at the ever-popular orchid show, the Missouri Botanical Garden’s vast orchid collection includes more than 6,000 individual plants representing almost 700 unique species, and approximately one in 10 […]

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Rachel Huffman

Budzinski Leads Illinois House Democrats in Demanding HUD Strengthen Housing Protections

4 months 2 weeks ago
SPRINGFIELD – Today, Congresswoman Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) led 12 members of the Illinois Delegation in a letter to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opposing their proposed rule to rescind the existing disparate impact regulation under the Fair Housing Act without replacing it. “For more than a decade, state and local governments, housing providers, and advocates have structured compliance, enforcement, and programmatic decisions around HUD’s disparate