Read more about the article Pesticide applicators report drift issues with dicamba, even when using brand names in good weatherDarrell Hoemann/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Dicamba resistant soybeans in rural McLean County on August 7.

Pesticide applicators report drift issues with dicamba, even when using brand names in good weather

More than 100 Illinois pesticide retailers reported the weed killer dicamba drifted and damaged soybeans even when it was sprayed in good conditions, according to a recent industry survey.

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Read more about the article Inspectors fail 16 food establishments from June to SeptemberDarrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess.org
Bacaro at 113 N. Walnut St. in Champaign failed its routine health inspection on September 15.

Inspectors fail 16 food establishments from June to September

Altogether, from June 1 to September 30, 16 food establishments were closed or failed inspections for health code violations, according to a review of inspection records by the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.

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Read more about the article Long-time housing for migrant farmworkers closesDarrell Hoemann/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting
Nightingale Camp, a former hospital on the decomissioned Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois, sits abandoned. It was once the largest migrant housing camp in the state.

Long-time housing for migrant farmworkers closes

Since 2001, the former hospital on Nightingale Court in Rantoul, Ilinois housed as many as 450 migrant farmworkers and their families to work in the fields in central Illinois. But this year, its owner – Unique Storage Inc. – did not submit a migrant labor camp application for the site, known as Nightingale, according to the state public health department. Instead, housing for the farmworkers was moved elsewhere.

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