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MOLLY PARKER The Southern MURPHYSBORO — Mike Mills, who died this week at the age of 79, didn’t set out to seed a love of barbecue across the country, well beyond its roots in the South and parts of the Midwest, but that’s what he ended up doing. After graduating from Murphysboro Township High School in 1959, he enrolled in the first class in the Dental Technology program at Southern Illinois University. He earned an associate’s degree and moved to Elgin to work ...

Mike Mills was an award-winning hall of fame pitmaster, a restaurateur who became a worldwide ambassador for barbecue, the southern Illinois region and the role that cooking meat slowly over a smoky fire plays in restoring the soul. Mills, 79, who founded 17th Street Barbecue, turning a century-old building in downtown Murphysboro into an internationally known restaurant with a clientele that included top chefs and former President Bill Clinton, died Tuesday, his daughter and restaurant co-owne...

Completely ridiculous. >> is there anything to what hes saying, that many of piece charitable organizations and nongovernmental organizations are the ones there in the forest, the amazon, and fueling the fires so that they will end up getting donations? >> no. i dont think theres anything. i know everybody in the conservation world and i know the work that leo to say. people like jane goodall and leo have been using their power to try to protect these places. the indigenous people have been lovi...