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Still have your eclipse glasses? Don’t throw them away — recycle them at Parkland College
Parkland College in Champaign has collection boxes set up at the William M. Staerkel Planetarium and inside the Parkland College Learning Commons, according to a post on Facebook. The glasses will be donated to Astronomers Without Borders, a nonprofit organization that will vet the glasses for reusability and redistribute them around the world for upcoming annular and total eclipse events.
Food prices jumped 25% since 2020. A financial educator in Illinois has these tips for cutting costs
Food prices are currently the third highest consumer expense. USDA data shows the cost of food at home increased by 3.5% in 2020, 3.9% in 2021, 11.4% in 2022, and 5% last year.
Student journalists at UIUC and Fourah Bay College team up to cover period poverty in Sierra Leone
A team of journalists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign recently traveled to Sierra Leone to report on the global phenomenon of period poverty.