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Good Wednesday morning, Illinois. I’m
Daniel Payne, your guest host while
Shia Kapos is off this week. While she’s away, Illinois Playbook won t publish Thursday but will be back on Friday.
TOP TALKER
The General Assembly will briefly return next week to tackle some big leftover items that failed to reach the finish line before session officially ended Memorial Day.
Rainstorms did not deter veterans and members of the public from gathering at Mt. Olivet Cemetery to honor Americaâs fallen soldiers.
Legion commander Darryl Atherton again led the service at the grave of Ernest Clifford Sexton at the cemeteryâs north end. âThese men and women didnât die in service to their country by choice, but they did make a choiceâthe choice to serve the nation and defend the freedoms we Americans have shared for more than 200 years,â he said in a prepared speech.
âTo honor their choice we gather in places such as this throughout the world. In places like Arlington National Cemetery, Luxembourg, Normandy, Okinawa and here, in Buena Vista.â
A second and third teenager have been taken into custody in North Carolina in connection to the murder of a 69-year-old man found suffering from fatal injuries in a cemetery in the state capital of Raleigh over the Memorial Day weekend.
A bill that will pay unemployed workers to find a job is moving to the state House. A former western North Carolina district attorney is back at work. Faith leaders want more answers in the shooting death of Andrew Brown, Junior.