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Check private water wells
The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State
Water Survey are reminding Illinois private well-owners to
properly maintain their wells and recommend that they test their
wells for potential contaminants. Officials said most private
wells which are properly constructed and maintained provide safe
water for years. However, contamination can occur due to
improper construction, poor maintenance or releases of
contaminants into the well’s aquifer. They add that many
contaminants cannot be detected by sight, taste or smell.
Pritzkers donate Civil War document
Gov. J.B. Pritzker and First Lady M.K. Pritzker have donated a
historic document to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
and Museum. The document is President Lincoln’s final
authorization to begin a blockade of Southern ports, a strategy
that would play a decisive role in the outcome of the Civil War.
The document, from April 19, 1861, launched the famous “Anaconda
Plan,” which remained in effect for the rest of the Civil War
and was critical to defeating the Southern Confederacy.
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