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article physics is one of the most intriguing scientific fields, probing the nature of the very makeup of the universe itself. However, over the last half decade, due to the growing economic crisis and various items such as war funding taking precedence in government budgets, the budget to help the U.S. stay leaders in the field of particle physics has been slipping. The U.S. currently is down to only one remaining particle physics lab, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois, associated with the University of Chicago and the lab was looking to be on the way out....

Five families who attempted to have their Batavia high students transferred out of a transgender teacher's class have been told their children will stay put. The district received five written requests from parents requesting their children be moved out of the classroom led by a teacher who changed sexes from male to female. Batavia's superintendent denied the request because they did not meet district guidelines. The teacher will instruct about 100 students this year.

I live in Batavia Illinois just a short distance from Dennis Hastert’s office. I decided to snap a few pictures of the march. I am sure some of my pictures won’t be in the MSM.

The portrait of Abraham Lincoln hanging in the entranceway is one of the only hints of the building's lost history. Bellevue Place, a grand structure with a limestone facade and towering windows, was once a sanitarium for women - and in the summer of 1875 a Cook County jury declared Mary Todd Lincoln insane and sent her here against her will. The building is now an apartment complex, and the details of Lincoln's stay have been lost in the passage of time. But current residents say they often wonder about the former first lady. "To think she walked up these...