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Illinois Treasurer Michael Frerichs talks to 16 NIU and DeKalb leaders during a round table discussion in 2015 in the Holmes Student Center Sky Room. Frerichs says one-in-four adults in Illinois have the ability to find unclaimed property through the I-Cash program.

I-Cash seeks to reunite $3.2 million with DeKalb residents

By Evan Mellon, News Reporter | April 27, 2023

DeKALB – DeKalb County residents might have unclaimed money in their name, and a program from the Illinois State Treasurer is looking to reunite millions to the residents they belong to. I-Cash is a program run by the office of Illinois State Treasurer...

Minimum wage will hurt students, consumers

By Jeremiah Caterina | April 14, 2014

A survey released earlier this year from Public Policy Polling found 63 percent of voting Illinoisans support the increase. Consider me the minority.One reason I oppose a minimum wage hike is due to the negative effects the increase would likely have...

Workers sort through sweet potatoes Friday at Vick Family Farms in Wilson, N.C. The humble sweet potato staple of Thanksgiving dinners and Southern cooking for generations has recently gone cosmopolitan, thanks to a booming appetite for the vegetables in Europe, where they were all but unknown as recently as 10 years ago.

Americans see 50 percent increase in cost of Thanksgiving dinner

By James Maahs | November 22, 2010

It might be a small Thanksgiving for more families this year. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation the average price for Thanksgiving dinner has seen a 50 percent increase since 1987. Assistant economics professor Jeremy Groves, explained...

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