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Emiquon: Lab for the
Future
Dr. Michael Lemke, UIS
associate professor of biology, is leading the effort to restore the
Emiquon floodplain along the Illinois River as part of a remediation
effort beginning this summer in partnership with the Nature
Conservancy and other regional scientists. The once-vast Thompson
Lake, which served as a food bank for the area, was drained starting
in 1917, and since then the wetland complex has been pummeled by a
constant barrage of urban runoff, industrial waste, and agricultural
effluent dumped into the Illinois River. Read the
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Documentary shows gangster’s true colors
Charlie Birger has left quite a legacy in southern
Illinois. The Prohibition-era gangster was so prominent during the
1920s that a lot of people living in southern Illinois today have a
Charlie Birger story to tell. Like other gangsters and mobsters,
Birger is often glorified, and he’s sometimes even portrayed as a
Prohibition-era Robin Hood. The makers of a new PBS documentary,
however, are seeking to change this perception by focusing on the
crimes Birger committed.
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