By The U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service

Cher-Make Sausage Company, a Manitowoc, Wisconsin establishment, is recalling approximately 429 pounds of fully-cooked meat sausage products due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Friday. The product contains milk (cheese), which is not declared on the packaging label.
The product labeled as “Old Fashioned Wieners” may contain cheddar wieners product. The product was produced on July 23, 2020. The following products are subject to recall:

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Posted on September 12, 2020

By Landmarks Illinois

Landmarks Illinois is excited to announce the nine recipients of the 2020 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards. The annual awards program, now in its 27th year, honors exceptional historic preservation projects and the people saving important places in Illinois.
Projects and individuals in Aurora, Chicago, Galena, Moline, Rockford and Watseka will receive awards in the categories of Adaptive Use, Rehabilitation, Restoration, Advocacy and Lifetime Achievement. The 2020 award winners will be honored at a virtual awards ceremony October 21, 2020, the details of which are below. In addition to an award, recipients receive a $1,000 prize.

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Posted on September 10, 2020

By David Rutter

Greetings, celebrity shtupping fans. WTF has just flown in from a fortnight in Majorca with big news. And, boy, are his wings tired.
Have you noticed that some people won’t go away? You cannot miss them because they never leave. You want them to exit, pray for it, but they won’t. They’re like genital warts.
Only a premature death can rid us of Jay Cutler, Sara Huckabee Sanders, all the offspring named Trump (you don’t really need DNA to test their paternity), Rahm Emanuel and Kanye West.
Modern culture makes them immortal. True, it’s a sin to wish harm on others, but we can deal with the guilt.
Oh, lord, when will the veil of their continued existence be lifted from your chosen people?

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Posted on September 8, 2020

By The Fabricators & Manufacturers Association

The Elgin-based Fabricators & Manufacturers Association, International® (FMA) is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Safety Awards. Open to all FMA company members, the program recognizes metal fabrication companies committed to excellence in safety. Award winners are determined by the FMA Safety Council and the awards are sponsored by CNA.
The 2020 Safety Award of Honor is presented to companies having perfect safety records (no recordable injuries or illnesses for the calendar year 2019).
Companies receiving the 2020 Safety Award of Honor are:

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Posted on September 5, 2020

By UIC

Adolescents transitioning into high school encounter a large number of unfamiliar peers, who they quickly label into groups by using an individual’s appearance as their guide.
But how do visible cues of high school cliques correlate with what youth say about themselves?
Are adolescents who are stereotyped by peers as jocks actually more sports-oriented, populars more well-liked, and loners more lonely than the average high schooler?

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Posted on September 1, 2020

By E.K. Mam

Stylishly disillusioned and angsty, I started wearing turtlenecks and tweed blazers regularly when I was 16. Not so coincidentally, that’s when I also gravitated to Existentialism. I was a high school student taking classes I didn’t care for; forced into a routine I was strangled by; had responsibilities I was burdened with shackled to my ankles. I searched for a meaning, a reason, an excuse to justify my stagnated life. Surprise: I didn’t find much of an answer. “That’s just how it is” or “We all had to go through it, too” was the comforting counsel of some adults. Others tried to convince me that these were the necessary growing pains one had to endure to eventually comfortably take strives as an adult. But I felt I was wasting my youth in preparation for an adulthood I was not interested in. I was not just confused as to why things were the way they were; I was angry. My anger brewed into bitterness until I grew tired, not just of raging in vain: I had grown tired of life. Melodramatic? Excessive? Prematurely flinging myself into an emotional crisis? Perhaps. But I very much doubt that the core of my teenage rage is shared among many, across all age groups. At that age, I relished too much in the aesthetic of Existentialism to actually read deeply into the philosophy. Little did I know that the answer I was so desperately looking for was underneath my nose, in the very aesthetic and philosophy I claimed to live by.

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Posted on August 30, 2020

By The Chicago History Museum

“This introductory video for American Medina: Stories of Muslim Chicago (October 2019-May 2021) greets visitors as they enter the gallery.
“American Medina draws from more than 100 interviews conducted with Muslim Chicagoans sharing their stories of faith, identity, and personal journeys.
“Dozens of objects from local individuals and organizations, such as garments, artwork, and photographs, as well as videos and interactive experiences expand on how and why Chicago is known as the American Medina.”

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Posted on August 27, 2020

By The U.S. Postal Inspection Service

“Think about it: What legitimate company is going to send you items in somebody else’s name and ask you to ship them? Why wouldn’t they just do it themselves?”

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Posted on August 24, 2020

By The American Lung Association

August is National Immunization Awareness Month, and a yearly reminder of the importance of vaccines. During National Adult Immunization Week, the American Lung Association reminds to help protect themselves from potentially serious lung diseases such as influenza (the flu) and pneumococcal pneumonia.
An estimated 40,000 to 50,000 adults in the United States die from vaccine-preventable infectious diseases or their complications each year.

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Posted on August 20, 2020

By UIC

With the number of extreme weather days rising around the globe in recent years due to global warming, it is no surprise that there has been an upward trend in hospital visits and admissions for injuries caused by high heat over the last several years. But cold temperatures are responsible for almost all temperature-related deaths, according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research.
According to the new study by researchers at the University of Illinois-Chicago, patients who died because of cold temperatures were responsible for 94% of temperature-related deaths, even though hypothermia was responsible for only 27% of temperature-related hospital visits.
“With the decrease in the number of cold weather days over the last several decades, we still see more deaths due to cold weather as opposed to hot weather,” said Lee Friedman, associate professor of environmental and occupational health sciences in the UIC School of Public Health and corresponding author on the paper. “This is in part due to the body’s poorer ability to thermoregulate once hypothermia sets in, as well as since there are fewer cold weather days overall, people don’t have time to acclimate to cold when those rarer cold days do occur.”

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Posted on August 18, 2020