MIDWEST MOTORCYCLE ENGINEERING SCHOOL LAUNCHES WITH INFANTRY CLASS CHICAGO, ILLINOIS – Midwest Motorcycle Mechanic School, a joint effort between Windy City Motorcycle Company and McHenry County College, started with its inaugural class on January 10, 2022! The School offers a 12-week course taught by Certified Master Mechanics in a state-of-the-art facility in Woodstock, Illinois. With 360 hours of instruction combining training, classroom sessions and work opportunities, successful completion of the course will prepare students to begin their careers in this challenging and growing field. “I highly recommend this class to anyone looking into motorcycle engineering as a career.” said Randy,…
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Corner down icon An icon in the shape of a corner pointing down. Austin, Texas, state capital. benedek/Getty Images Home prices in Texas and Florida have risen 30% and 42% since 2019, according to Realtor.com.Texans are increasingly looking to the Midwest for affordability, the real estate website found.Florida residents are looking for homes in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina. As people across the U.S. move to Florida and Texas, locals are feeling squeezed — and looking elsewhere for affordable housing.The typical cost of a home in Texas has increased 30% since 2019, according to Realtor.com, and 42% in…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City-based organization working to overturn wrongful convictions receives a $1 million donation from Team Roc. Team Roc is the philanthropic arm of Jay-Z's entertainment company, Roc Nation.Midwest Innocence Project (MIP) works to free wrongfully convicted people in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. The group was founded from the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. The organization's advocates helped free local Ricky Kidd and are ready to help Kevin Strickland's case for acquittal. MIP was linked to Roc Nation in recent weeks when the entertainment company requested an investigation into the Kansas City,…
JUPITER, Fla. — The Cardinals' parent company, broadcast partner Bally Sports Midwest and several other regional sports networks that carry Major League Baseball to millions of fans filed for bankruptcy protection late Tuesday night.Diamond Sports Group, the largest owner of regional sports networks, announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 protection so it can “eliminate more than $8 billion in outstanding debt.”In a statement, the company said it “will continue to operate as usual” during the bankruptcy and restructuring process, and that its vast slate of live games, such as the Blues and Cardinals at Bally Sports Midwest, will…
The problems for Roland Carroll started last fall. That's when the 61-year-old said his apartment complex in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, informed him that federal housing assistance for his one-bedroom apartment had been reduced months ago. He owed more than $2,000 in back rent. “I was in shock,” Carroll said. “So how on earth could I owe that amount without you saying something months ago?” Carol doesn't have a car and works odd jobs through a local temp agency. He struggled to pay the back rent and come up with $339 for his share of the monthly rent. “November and December…
From a federal biocontainment facility in tornado-prone Kansas to a center honoring the military and its history in Wisconsin to an effort to stabilize a road on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River, dozens of projects were honored this year in ENR Midwest's 2023 Best Projects , a competition that highlights the cream of the crop in the construction industry.Judges reviewed approximately 65 projects built between May 1, 2022 and May 31, 2023, ultimately honoring 34 projects, including the winners of the Best Projects, Value Awards as well as projects shortlisted for the Excellence in Sustainability and Excellence in…
If the focus of national news is on Ohio, it's a good bet it's a presidential election year. The old political adage that “As Ohio goes, so goes the nation” has proven true for the last ten presidential contests since 1976. But the biggest surprise to pollsters and voters this year may just be that the state of Ohio for America and the Midwest it reaches far beyond politics. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attends a rally at the Cleveland Public Amphitheater… [+] November 6, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Supporters cheer as Republican presidential candidate…
Elise Schmelzer 307-266-0574, MIDWEST — It's noon and the bell isn't ringing.The wind whistles on the rooftops and dogs bark sporadically in the gray sky, but this central Wyoming oil town of 400 is mostly quiet. The school bell should ring for lunch, but the children are gone, so the bell is silent.Gone, too, were the screams of the schoolchildren on the playground, the screeching of their bicycles on the gravel side streets, the collision of the football players from the field down the hill. The streets of modest one-story houses are muted, like the greens of the distant hills…
WASHINGTON – In a summer of drought, smoke and smog, wildfires could flare up in unusual places across the United States in the coming months – including New England and the Midwest, federal forecasters say. “The predominant threat seems to be the northeast, which is not normal,” said Jim Karels, fire director for the National Interagency Fire Center, the federal center in Boise that coordinates the national response to wildland fires. “This year it looks like there's a potential for increased fire conditions through August, from Minnesota to Maine and down along the East Coast.” As wildfires continued across Canada,…
For nearly a century, the Harlem Globetrotters have brought flair and antics to the game of basketball. The team has played to more than 148 million people, in more than 26,000 exhibition games in 124 countries and regions. The Harlem Globetrotters began in 1926 as the Savoy Big Five, an African-American basketball team that came primarily from Wendell Phillips High School on Chicago's South Side. The Harlem Globetrotters began in 1926 as the Savoy Big Five, an African-American basketball team that came primarily from Wendell Phillips High School on Chicago's South Side. The team was renamed the Harlem Globetrotters in…