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...Gessert’s parents, Albert and Elizabeth Stuessy, bought a farm near Avon Township in the 1920s, in an area regularly flooded by the Sugar river close to the Illinois border....
...an airport An aerial photo of the Oceti Sakowin camp in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, where protesters gathered after a federal judge refused to halt work on the last stretch of a pipeline taking oil to Illinois...
...Saving us the trouble, Radiolab considers the question by adding that story to some about the superior rainbow of colours that certain animals can see; and then to the strange fact that Homer’s odd descriptions...
...A map of St Louis county’s township boundaries resembles a shattered pane of glass, a legacy of decades of segregation....
...In 1975, she won a scholarship (courtesy of auto giant General Motors) to attend Northwestern University in Illinois, where she studied computing science and electrical engineering....
...She wears the Illinois state tartan. “You’re clearly not Scottish,” they say....
...Born in 1922 in Marshfield, Wisconsin, Robert William Galvin attended Evanston Township High School in Evanston, Illinois....
...There’s much to be said for – or, rather, against – the obligations of the state of Illinois, the debts of the peripheral nations of the eurozone and the trillions of yen-denominated Japanese government...
...with capital letters – is as a grand, defiantly self-important rock record built on epic, gracefully potty progressive rock scale, perhaps to compete with Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz, as well as Homer...
...There’s just one problem: Homer mentions that Argos is a hunting dog but he never specifies the type....
...We The Drowned , by Carsten Jensen, translated by Charlotte Barslund, Harvill Secker RRP£17.99 A rollicking debut by Jensen, the latest in a lineage of authors of maritime sagas stretching from Homer to...
...The Illinois senator last month broke his schedule to visit the 86-year-old, who helped raise him, after learning she was losing a battle with cancer....
...Conscientious owners of houses designed by Wright even find themselves called “curators” by Wright aficionados, say Larry and Victoria Smith, recent owners of the Glore House in Lake Forest, Illinois....
...But now that business involves selling things that used to be quaintly considered public knowledge: such as whether the Babe hit a homer in a particular match, or which rooftop has the best view of Chicago's...
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