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 Todd Maisch
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
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Todd Maisch was head of the business group since 2014.
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Dev Shah, 14, from Largo, Fla., reacts as he wins the Scripps National Spelling Bee finals, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Oxon Hill, Md.
Nick Wass
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AP
Dev Shah won by correctly spelling "psammophile," a noun that is used to describe animals and plants that prefer to live in sandy soil environments
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 Timo Arthur playing guitar
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timoarthur.net
Winner of the 2013 Atlanta Blues Challenge, Timo Arthur has spent the past thirty years working as a professional musician. Arthur currently lives in Springfield after stops around the world. His piano ballad "Sing Me Into Heaven (for Eva Cassidy)" won a Runner Up award in the 2017 Song of the Year contest. Timo visited the NPR Illinois studios to discuss his art on Community Voices.
In a town where private space is at a premium, this 1953 photo from Michael "Tony" Vaccaro taken for <em>LOOK</em> magazine shows off a stylish way to get a city view.
Michael "Tony" Vaccaro
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Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York is marking its centennial with an exhibition of NYC-inspired film, TV, music and fashion. But this is real New York, "not a love letter," says one of the curators.
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Tina Turner, Pop and R&B vocalist, holds up a Grammy Award, Feb. 27, 1985, in Los Angeles. Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer, died Tuesday, after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager. She was 83.
Nick Ut
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AP
President Biden joined celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Mick Jagger and Angela Bassett, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role playing Turner in her biopic, in honoring the late singer.