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OP-ED: Rethinking advantages of Medicare Advantage

Traditional Medicare is funded by taxpayers and enrollees; Medicare Advantage providers are private companies whose benefits can be very misleading. Here are some things seniors should know during this year’s open enrollment season

Arts Alerts: Check out what’s going on in central Illinois

Open Mic Night on Wednesdays and Thursdays at Jukebox. Chamber music and “Tribute to Frank Sinatra” at Bradley’s Dingeldine Music Center; Joe Metzka is “Live at the Five Spot” at Contemporary Art Center; Peoria Area Civic Chorale at Five Points Washington; “Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” at Westminster Presbyterian Church. Community Children’s Theatre presents “Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical” at Peoria Players; Eastlight presents “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at East Peoria High;
“The Nutcracker” will be performed by Central Illinois Ballet at ICC, and also by the Peoria Ballet Company at Peoria Civic Center.

Labor roundup: Museum staff, doctors unionize

AFSCME representing workers at Chicago museums, including the Museum of Science and Industry, Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, the Art Institute of and Adler Planetarium; judge reverses Voice of America layoffs