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Illinois fails to protect immigrant victims of crime, report finds
Chicago Tribune· 1 day agoIllinois is failing to protect immigrant victims of crime or trafficking, according to a new report...
Ahead of Memorial Day, Illinois treasurer seeks to return a dozen unclaimed Purple Heart medals
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAhead of Memorial Day, Illinois State Treasurer Michael Frerichs made a renewed request for the...
The bugs are coming! If a cicada invasion sounds familiar, thank Hollywood
Chicago Tribune· 5 days agoMagicicada septendecim, also known as Brood XIII, also known as the 17-year locust, also known as...
The Most Bizarrely-Named Cities in America
MediaFeed via AOL· 3 days agoIt’s easy to overlook strange place names once you get used to them, but as an Italian, I’m shocked that people in the U.S. actually live in cities and...
Reparations proposals for Black Californians advance to state Assembly
FOX 8 Cleveland· 4 days agoSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The California Senate advanced a set of ambitious reparations proposals...
Neglected tropical diseases threaten to become the next pandemic. We must prepare for them now
Salon via Yahoo News· 2 days agoStates. Dengue, yellow fever, Chagas and Zika have expanded beyond their historical tropical origins...
How Did Cockroaches Reach Global Domination?
Scientific American· 4 days ago“I’ve been looking forward to someone doing something like this,” says Dominic Evangelista, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Illinois...
Bottled water is full of microplastics. Is it still ‘natural’?
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 2 days agoA lawsuit against Nestlé in 2017 said its “Pure Life Purified” brand name and labels misrepresented...
How the Murder of a Black Grocery Store Owner and His Colleagues Galvanized Ida B. Wells'...
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoIda B. Wells sat firmly while the Memphis streetcar man gripped her body and tried to forcibly...
With college athletes on cusp of revenue-sharing, there are Title IX questions that must be answered
Associated Press via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoThe looming athlete pay system that will upend the traditional college sports model and...
