November 2023

Gov. Pritzker announces the largest class of small businesses inducted into the Illinois Made Program 

CHICAGO— Governor JB Pritzker joined the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO), elected officials, and industry leaders at Koval Distillery to announce that 48 small businesses or ‘Makers’ have been inducted into the Illinois Made program – the largest class of businesses since the program’s inception in 2016. Each year, the Illinois Office of

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Gov. Pritzker celebrates completion of I-57 improvements in Chicago, South Suburbs

CHICAGO— Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) were joined today by local officials and community leaders to celebrate the completion of a series of multiyear improvements worth $82.1 million along Interstate 57, part of several investments in the state’s longest interstate highway made possible by the historic, bipartisan Rebuild Illinois capital

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IDFPR highlights recipients of first-of-their-kind scholarships for aspiring real estate appraisers in Illinois

CHICAGO – The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (“IDFPR”) congratulates 34 recipients of scholarships in Illinois from the Appraiser Diversity Initiative (“ADI”).   This comes after IDFPR’s Division of Real Estate (“DRE”) hosted its first “How to” Series workshop on November 15 at the Real Estate Institute in Niles, collaborating with ADI on this

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IDNR awards more than $5,200 for school field trips to state historic sites

SPRINGFIELD – Nearly 350 Illinois schoolchildren will visit state historic sites this schoolyear thanks to grant funding provided through the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ State Historic Sites Field Trip Grant program.   More than $5,200 in donated grant funds were awarded for 10 field trip grants. The grantees represent four counties in the state.

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Illinois hunters harvest more than 53,000 deer first weekend of firearm season

SPRINGFIELD – Hunters in Illinois harvested a preliminary total of 53,348 deer during the first weekend of the Illinois firearm deer season between Nov. 17-19. Comparatively, hunters took 52,354 deer during the first firearm weekend in 2022.   Illinois’ seven-day firearm deer season will conclude Nov. 30-Dec. 3. Other deer hunting opportunities in the weeks

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Illinois product holiday market returns first weekend in December

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – The Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) will bring the Illinois Product Holiday Market back to downtown Springfield this year. The market takes place December 1st-3rd on the “Y Block” north of the Governor’s Mansion.   The holiday market will feature Illinois products for everyone on your shopping list this season, including local

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Kyle Schweiss of SGHS named District 8 Smart/Maher National Citizenship Education Teacher award recipient

STE. GENEVIEVE – The judging for the District 8 (D-8) Smart/Maher National Citizenship Education Teacher Award has been complete and a Ste. Genevieve High School teacher is one of those selected.     Kyle R Schwess was submitted by Post: 2210/Aux: 2210   The submission in the middle school category is a teacher at De

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Lutheran Family and Children’s Services achieves reaccreditation from Council of Accreditation

ST. LOUIS, Mo. – Lutheran Family and Children’s Services (LFCS), one of Missouri’s oldest social service agencies and a trusted provider of life-changing services for children and families has announced it has achieved reaccreditation from the Council on Accreditation (COA).   “We are honored to have achieved reaccreditation from the Council of Accreditation,” said Mike

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Study spearheads soybean cyst nematode resistance research

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Researchers in the University of Missouri’s Division of Plant Science and Technology have been academic and industry leaders in deciphering the underlying genetic mechanisms soybeans utilize to defend against soybean cyst nematode (SCN). For the last four years, a team of scientists at the University of Missouri, the University of Georgia

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