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Corn and soybean fields as far as the eye can see are the typical sights of summer throughout rural areas of Illinois. But next year, 'fields of green'…
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Planning for the state fair is in full swing, but Illinois has yet to pay all the costs for last year’s fair.The state still owes the city of Springfield…
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This is a statewide debate about a real rural issue Growing up in Rushville, Carrie Johnson, the granddaughter of Schuyler County pig and dairy farmers,…
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The new Republican state representative for the Springfield area says she won't always agree with the governor. The local GOP named Sara Wojcicki Jimenez…
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Governor Bruce Rauner has named a longtime Republican state representative -- Raymond Poe of Springfield -- to head the state's agriculture department.…
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Musical acts for the state fair were paid up front while the artist who sculpted the fair’s iconic butter cow is still waiting for her check. Meanwhile,…
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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has accepted the resignation of the state's Agriculture Department director and the director of the state fair. The…
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The Illinois State Fair will go on next week. That’s even though the budget stalemate has left officials without the means to fully pay for it.If you go…
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Illinois officials say the threat of bird flu required limits on poultry at this year’s Illinois State Fair.This strain of avian influenza entered the…
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The Illinois Department of Agriculture is banning out-of-state birds from exhibitions and fairs around the state to help stem the spread of a deadly bird…