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Innovative couple has transformed old warehouse into charming hotel In Soldiers Grove THE DAVENPORT ROOM at the new Tobacco Warehouse Inn in Soldiers Grove gives a sense of the tasteful charm and sumptuous comfort to be enjoyed there. The room is named for owner Noel Miller’s mentor in the hotel business. SOLDIERS GROVE - The Village of Soldiers Grove is a beehive of innovation and transformation these days. In the old part of town, abandoned due to repeated flooding on the Kickapoo River, a renaissance of culture and enthusiasm is...

County weighs adding residential properties to enterprise zones Scott Cousins, scousins@thetelegraph.com FacebookTwitterEmail 5of5 EDWARDSVILLE — A proposed expansion and change to Madison County’s Southwestern Madison County Enterprise Zone has led to sharp disagreement over whether to include residential development. The Madison County Board’s Grants Committee last week discussed several proposed changes, including adding territory, extending tax abatement time periods to 10 from four years and including residential development. Enterprise zones offer incentives to developers, primar...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The union that represents many Chicago teachers is requesting a delay in the reopening of high schools, along with more COVID-19 vaccinations for students and families as it continues to negotiate with school district officials to resume in-person instruction.  Chicago Public Schools has set a target date for high school students to return to the classroom on April 19, but the Chicago Teacher's Union has pushed back on the idea, citing concerns over the coronavirus pandemic and new variants of the virus tha...

/ Leo Coach, Pete Dell, Dan Bode and Al Moses are among the musicians that make up An Isolated Few, a project Bode spearheaded. The artists played and recorded live music in Bode's backyard in Cleveland during the COVID-19 pandemic. When blues player Dan Bode moved back to Cleveland in April 2020 after residing in Seattle for three years, his life as a gigging musician was effectively put on hold. Bode said relocating back to his hometown in the middle of a pandemic was stressful. He left behind three bands he had played with in Washington. Finding ways to keep the music alive while the entir...

Reply Candidates from the Let's Do Better and District 67 Excellence slates are challenging the Lake Forest Caucus-backed candidates in local school board races. (Patch Graphics) LAKE FOREST-LAKE BLUFF, IL — Voters in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff will select new board members Tuesday in a half-dozen competitive local school and village board races. In school board races in Lake Forest School District 67 and Lake Forest Community High School District 115, two slates of candidates are competing for seats. Both the Lake Forest Caucus and the group Let's Do Better have endorsed full slates of f...