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Ruby Acree and James Acree release a tagged monarch butterfly on Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019 during a Butterfly Round-up at Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge.

Crab Orchard tags monarchs to track migration south

By Elizabeth Biernacki, Staff Reporter
September 14, 2019
Hours before Tuesdays deadline, Congress and the White House had yet to begin serious negotiations over next years budget, threatening a government shutdown that could delay Social Security payments, shutter national parks, museums and monuments and furlough hundreds of thousands of employees, Sept. 30, 2013. The Senate flatly rejected a House of Representatives proposal to keep the government funded through Dec. 15 but delay implementation of the contentious federal health care law. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/MCT)

U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood addresses tax reform, NAFTA status and the national opioid crisis

By Jared DuBach | Canton Daily Ledger
October 19, 2017
Governer of Illinois Bruce Rauner speaks to media after watching the total solar eclipse, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, at SIU Arena in Carbondale. (Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz)

After long delay, governor assumes role of Rauner the recruiter

By Monique Garcia | Chicago Tribune
September 15, 2017
Prairie grass grows in front of the Caterpillar Visitors Center on Jan. 31, 2017, in Peoria, Ill. The company has announced it will move its headquarters to the Chicago area, though many workers will remain in Peoria.

Interplanetary construction comes to Caterpillar this week

By Matt Buedel | Journal Star, Peoria, Illinois
August 23, 2017
Prairie grass grows in front of the Caterpillar Visitors Center on Jan. 31, 2017, in Peoria, Ill. The company has announced it will move its headquarters to the Chicago area, though many workers will remain in Peoria.

Feds raid Caterpillar headquarters in Peoria

By Ally Marotti | Chicago Tribune
March 2, 2017
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