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WCBU: No new landfill for another 15 years? County doesn’t think so
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Despite contract to build Landfill #3, GFL pivots to using transfer station in Hopedale
ARTS ALERTS: ‘Ignite Peoria’ at Civic Center, Italian American Fest at Hickory Grove; Jazz at Trailside, First United Methodist Church
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Corn Stock presents “Nine” and “The Mousetrap” and Peoria Players perform “Mean Girls: High School Version” plus Art Guild offering all kinds of classes
West Peoria News: Our beautiful trees are more than just scenery
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Peoria Garden Club celebrating 100th anniversary; Peoria Rugby Club helping start a program in West Peoria; Troop 11 Ice Cream Social this month
Finally, Big Oil facing days in court
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There are more than 30 cases filed by state attorneys general, cities, counties and tribal nations against companies including Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell. Many show oil companies’ own research projecting the dangers of climate change decades ago, after which the industry denied the threat and attacked scientific consensus about the crisis
Labor roundup: Starbucks in Pekin unionizes
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Legislators move to make union dues deductible in Illinois; report shows 344 workers died per day in 2022
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WCBU: Planned Parenthood in Peoria reopening
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Everything in clinic is ‘brand new’ more than year after facility was firebombed
Labor roundup: Machinists seeking seat at Boeing’s board table
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Illinois improving protections for child labor; companies must disclose employee benefits
Environmental news & notes
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States scrambling to protect wetlands; enormous health risks at factory farms; renewing flood insurance new dilemma