Cancer found in Fox River fish in Illinois study
A report to the American Association for Cancer Research details a high incidence of tumors in more than 40 fish species from the polluted Fox River near Chicago. Researchers from Chicago Medical School and University of Manitoba found 15 tumor types, with bottom feeders like brown bullheads showing about 13 percent tumors, versus under 1 percent in Kenora Ontario waters.
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American Association For Cancer Research
Chicago Medical School
University of Manitoba Medical School
Chicago
Kenora
Ontario
Canada
Broadcasters honor Dee Brown as Illinoisan of the Year
Dee Brown author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was named Illinoisan of the Year by the Illinois News Broadcasters Association. Brown is an agriculture librarian and professor at the University of Illinois and spent two years researching his book on Indians in the American West. He has written 17 other books.
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Wounded Knee
Saturday Night
Illinois News Broadcasters Association
Brown
University of Illinois
INBA
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Aid crime fight Howlett urges license photos requirement
State Auditor Michael Howlett advocated mandatory photographs on drivers licenses to curb fraudulent credit card use. He cited $7 million in Illinois merchandise fraud last year. He noted 350,000 Republicans crossed party lines to vote in the Democratic primary, signaling desire for change from Gov. Ogilvie. The women's caucus planned benefits to help reduce Lt. Gov. Paul Simon’s $175,000 campaign debt from his governor bid.
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Howlett
Illinois
Downstate
Democratic Women’s Caucus
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Paul Simon
Simon
Hoffa to lead penal reform seminar in May
Former Teamster leader James R. Hoffa and jail director Robert Gruensfled are set to speak at a May 2021 seminar on law and penal reform at Pere Marquette State Park near St. Louis. The event is sponsored by the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. Hoffa was released from federal prison last December after a jury tampering sentence.
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James R. Hoffa
Pere Marquette State Park
St. Louis
Hoff
Robert Gruensfled
St. Louis County
Bar Association of
Metropolitan St. Louis
Hoffa
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