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  • February 2014

Where the jobs are

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  • February 2014

Listen to your heart

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  • January 2014

Hometown groceries

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  • January 2014

Casey’s General Store

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  • December 2013

Finest Cooking Holiday Recipe Contest Winners

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  • December 2013

Illinois innovation

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  • December 2013

Return of the eagles

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  • Feature Stories
  • November 2013

World-class performer

November 2013 Feature
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  • November 2013

A veteran’s best friend

Professional home energy auditors use infrared cameras to picture energy leaks.
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  • November 2013

Extreme Efficiency Makeover

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  • October 2013

Cooperation Innovation

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  • October 2013

Fire sparks volunteers

Personal relationships are at the core of what locally owned and operated cooperatives are all about, which makes them perfectly positioned to foster economic development projects. - Source: Touchstone Energy® Cooperatives
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  • October 2013

Energizing our communities the co-op way

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  • September 2013

Paddlewheel Steamboats Return to Illinois

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  • September 2013

Two girls with a dishwasher and a dream

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  • August 2013

Working together for Illinois

Galena Country Fair
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  • August 2013

Where there’s smoke … There might just be a festival!

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  • August 2013

Telling fish stories

Grandmother Rita along with sons (l-r) Richard, Robert and Steven hold the new Sesquicentennial Farm signs presented to them by State Rep. Jim Sacia.
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  • July 2013

This land is our land

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  • July 2013

The road to recovery

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  • July 2013

Watching wind grow in rural Illinois

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  • Feature Stories
  • June 2013

Who rescued whom?

Ginger was very underweight and pregnant when rescued.
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  • June 2013

Humane investigator SHAREs her stories of equine salvation

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  • June 2013

Delivering business success

lectric co-ops across the country have been preaching and teaching energy efficiency for years. Bob Dickey, manager of marketing and economic development for Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative took his “sermon” to congressional staffers on Capitol Hill using the co-op’s energy wall. The 18 foot-long energy wall uses compressed air flowing through the display to demonstrate potential energy losses that could easily be plugged with proper caulking, insulation and various sealants. Co-op officials gave policymakers an opportunity to experience the same energy-efficiency messages more than 300,000 co-op consumer-members in the nation’s heartland have been able to share. “We know we can reduce the energy costs on the vast majority of homes by 20 to 40 percent,” says Dickey. “Many homes were built decades ago and they leak like sieves.” Source: Kevin Bernson
  • Feature Stories
  • May 2013

Getting comfortable with home energy efficiency

JoAn, center, with her children (l-r) Michael, Linda and Mark.
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  • May 2013

Illinois Country Mother of the Year

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  • May 2013

Shawnee Bluffs Canopy Tour comes to southern Illinois

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  • May 2013

Nomination Letters

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  • April 2013

Leaving a legacy

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  • April 2013

Maple sirup the sweet tradition of Funks Grove

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  • April 2013

A small town preserves its roots and prospers

Volunteers work in the Farm Service garden in Springfield.
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  • March 2013

Fighting hunger and harvesting hope with local produce

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