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The Mattoon-based Prairie Stitchers partnered with the Bloomington/Normal Modern Quilt Guild for the outdoor show at Lytle Park.

Share this article Share this article IRVINE, Calif., April 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Shopoff Realty Investments ("Shopoff"), a national manager of opportunistic and value-add real estate investments, announced today that the company has secured a $105 million construction loan from Bank OZK for its I-10 Logistics Center project, located near the  I-10 freeway and Cherry Valley Boulevard interchange. The project is a joint venture partnership between Shopoff Realty Investments and Artemis Real Estate Partners. "This project represents one of the few opportunities to develop much-needed logist...

Jack Perez makes clothes for Jewish soldiers. In a way, Mel Gibson is to blame. In 2011, a few years after spouting that “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” during a DUI arrest, the filmmaker announced that he was making a biopic of one of our most celebrated warriors, Judah Maccabee. “That never materialized,” Perez, 36, said from Washington, where he is an Army specialist based in Fort Lewis. But the project got him thinking: “Why should this guy — who’s now in headlines for antisemitism — get to tell what is essentially one of our coolest stories?” Since ...

I reached for my headphones. Not the little white ones, but the massive half domes deep within my bag. A table away from me in the cramped café, two souls were projecting a conversation in volumes fit for a lecture hall. My hand stopped short. I found myself eavesdropping. And as I did, my annoyance melted into compassion. The woman sat leaning hard against the wall, as if the chair itself was not enough. She told of cancer and medical bankruptcy—the sort of life-unraveling events when body and finances break at the same time. “Sometimes I wonder if God and Satan made a bet on me,” she...