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weather•Nov 6, 06:31 AM

Freeze Warning in Effect for Greene (IL, MO): NWS Advisory

Official advisory issued by the National Weather Service (NOAA): * WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 30 expected. * WHERE...Portions of south central, southwest, and west central Illinois and central, east central, northeast, and southeast Missouri. * WHEN...From midnight tonight to 8 AM CST Saturday. *.

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weather•Nov 6, 06:11 AM

Freeze Watch in Effect for Jefferson (IL, MO): NWS Advisory

Official advisory issued by the National Weather Service (NOAA): * WHAT...For the Frost Advisory, temperatures as low as 33 will result in frost formation. For the Freeze Watch, sub-freezing temperatures as low as 31 possible. * WHERE...Portions of southern Illinois, southwest Indiana, western Kentucky, and southeast.

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technology•Nov 5, 03:17 PM

Midwestern City Lights

According to reporting by NASA Space & Missions, City lights from the Midwestern United States to the East Coast sparkle across the landscape a couple of hours before sunrise on Oct. 18, 2026. Major urban areas visible in the photograph include Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; and the New York.

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breaking•Nov 3, 09:40 AM

Chicago entrepreneur turns empty downtown office space into vertical gardens

According to reporting by NPR National News, The pandemic changed how, and where, the world works, but the empty office space left behind is a big drain on the owners of all that unused commercial real estate. But one entrepreneur is starting to plant the seeds of a partial solution to this lingering problem.

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culture•Nov 2, 09:30 PM

‘He made Black Jews not invisible anymore; he was the bridge’

According to reporting by The Forward, Rabbi Capers C. Funnye, Jr. rabbi and spiritual leader of Beth Shalom B’nai Zaken Ethiopian Hebrew Congregation in Chicago, and the Chief Rabbi of the International Israelite Board of Rabbis, died Nov. 2 at the age of 74. A cousin of Michelle Obama and an.

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culture•Oct 31, 11:22 PM

BDS is on the ballot in Illinois, sort of

According to reporting by Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), A handful of municipalities are voting on measures pushing for the state to scrap its law penalizing companies that boycott Israel. -- The post BDS is on the ballot in Illinois, sort of appeared first on Jewish Telegraphic Agency .

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culture•Oct 21, 06:23 PM

Watch: The cattle farmer building a synagogue in a cornfield

According to reporting by The Forward, For the past year and a half, we’ve followed Nik Jakobs, a third-generation cattle farmer in Sterling, Illinois, who is building a synagogue in a two-acre cornfield. Alongside it, he is also building a museum of tolerance. Our coverage began when Nik traveled.

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technology•Oct 19, 02:19 PM

JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes

According to primary wire communications published by The Verge Tech, Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that those issues are driving a big and maybe.

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world•Oct 18, 09:00 PM

Inside Chicago's battle against the synthetic drugs flooding the US

According to primary wire communications published by BBC News World, A new wave of synthetic drugs is sweeping across the United States, raising fear of a worsening drug crisis. The BBC's Quentin Sommerville reports from the frontlines in South Side, Chicago, where communities are battling the crisis.

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alerts•Oct 5, 12:57 PM

Dennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84

Federal and regional observers in Illinois are tracking active disclosures as CBS News US Politics reports: Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died.

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