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Laser cutting in the manufacturing industry has become the technology of choice for cutting the large, flat pieces that make up most of...

Sometimes the list of things to love about Illinois is so long people forget to include one of its biggest assets: winter. Well, maybe...

If you are old enough to remember the glory days of trucking from the 1950s until deregulation in the early 1980s, many images come to...

Who are you? Your identity is everything to you. It could be your career, your faith, your last name, your facial hair (it is Movember by...

Every great artist gets their start somewhere. Some start out as gang members tagging walls and railroad cars. Others start out at the...

One – it is the loneliest number. However, there is power in being the solitary numeric. Only one person can be President of the United...

Yeah, you read the title of this article correctly. There is a dumb law concerning securement of flatbed loads in Illinois. Does that...

Turn on your favorite news service and watch the turf wars. Pakistan and India are at peace, but Kashmir is still disputed. For...

Everything on the internet is true…everything! Don’t believe that statement? Well good, because it is obviously false. As technology has...

The wise man saved his money all year so there was enough cash to pay for the year-end holiday shopping. Hopefully he saved, or had...

What do all these terms have in common – road, street, highway, freeway, tollway, expressway, avenue, lane, parkway, boulevard? For sake...

Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure and Which Way books made popular in the 1970s and 80s? Every story had multiple possible endings...

There’s old expression called “getting the cart ahead of the horse”. In the modern world, the horse represents the truck, and the cart is...

When a young person studies mathematics, he will invariably learn about the law of mutual exclusivity. You cannot turn left and turn...

Everyone loves to pay income tax and here’s why: In America, you can pay as much or as little tax as you want. Right? Wrong. No one likes...

If you were more than an infant in 1980s or earlier, the year 2000 seemed like an age away. The average American thought people would be...

Remember the excitement of turning 16 years old and pining for your driver’s license? Those of you who came of age in Illinois may still...

When a typical American hears the word “jeep”, they immediately think of the iconic 4-wheel drive utility vehicle. These stalwarts...

Remember 2010? The immigration debate was a top story nationwide. The topic held news headlines longer than most political arguments, but...