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Aug 11, 2023 | illinoisnewsroom.org | Owen Henderson

The movie “You’re OUT!” is a road trip comedy of errors, much of it filmed in Champaign County. And on Aug. 12, it’s coming to the Savoy 16 theater for a local premiere. Focusing on parents who have trouble stepping back from their kids’ lives, “You’re OUT!” tells the story of two dads who will stop at nothing to get each of their sons recruited by top college baseball teams. In the process, the fathers come across a stray dog they name Matterhorn, who ends up joining them on the road trip.

Aug 10, 2023 | illinoisnewsroom.org | Eric Stock |WVIK-Rock Island

The company that built McLean County’s first wind farm has opened its first technician training facility in Bloomington. Houston-based EDP Renewables operates seven wind farm projects in central and northern Illinois, and more than 400 wind and solar farms across the country. New hires for the company at any of its renewable energy sites across the United States and Canada will now come to Bloomington for two weeks of training.

Aug 10, 2023 | illinoisnewsroom.org | Brian Mackey

Before baseball became the popular game we know today, in the mid-19th century an early iteration of the game known as “base ball,” yes two words, was the game of the century. On August 26, the Champaign Clippers will host a vintage base ball game at Weaver Park. Recently, Brian Mackey, host of The 21st show asked Clippers Co-captains Jed Willard and Doug Burgett to explain why this draws so many people.

Aug 8, 2023 | illinoisnewsroom.org | Owen Henderson

217 Today: How Donald Mullally helped save NPR August 8, 2023 Today’s headlines: Republican state representative Mike Marron is hosting an event for Rantoul residents to find out more about the resources within Illinois to ban advertising for guns allegedly marketed to kids and militants Attorney General Kwame Raoul would make Illinois the eighth state to allow lawsuits against firearms manufacturers or distributors. The plan is part of ongoing efforts by Democratic lawmakers who control the...

Aug 3, 2023 | illinoisnewsroom.org | Owen Henderson

The EPA plans to retool its pesticide program in an effort to protect endangered animals The EPA has completed less than 5% of its Endangered Species Act caseload in reviewing pesticides. Now the agency is proposing a new strategy for scrutinizing agricultural chemicals’ effects on listed species.