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Naperville Sun: DuPage seeing record-breaking early voter turnout, county clerk says
Early voting turnout has nearly doubled from four years ago, largely due to the expansion of voting by mail, the DuPage County Clerk’s Office said. With countywide early voting starting Monday and mail-in voting under way, 49,177 out of 615,626 registered county voters had already cast ballots as of Wednesday, the release said. That adds […]
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Washington Post: Economic future of U.S. depends on making engineering cool
On a recent afternoon, an unusual group of visitors peered through a window at Purdue University students tinkering in a lab: two dozen executives from the world’s biggest semiconductor companies. The tech leaders had traveled to the small-town campus on the Wabash River to fix one of the biggest problems that they — and the […]
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Daily Herald: Illinois’ clean energy jobs grew by 5% in 2021: Here’s where the work is
Jobs in clean energy — such as installing solar panel arrays, recycling lithium-ion battery modules and planning electric vehicle charging infrastructure — grew by more than 5,000 in Illinois last year, according to a recent report. With the advanced transportation and solar energy sectors driving the upward trend, employment in clean energy grew by nearly […]
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Daily Herald: ‘Absolutely on the right track’: State school report card shows signs of student growth
Illinois students appear to be showing signs of academic rebound after significant performance slippage from two years of learning disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s according to the 2022 Illinois School Report Card data that will be released Thursday. It includes the results of the state’s standardized assessments in English language arts and mathematics administered […]
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