Hey, everybody, guess what?Illinois is back again. It’s perfect timing for Gov. J.B. Pritzker. A special shout-out goes to both parties — Democrats and Republicans. It has been proven once again what can happen if they work together. With all of the new jobs that will be added, people will be moving back to the state. To put the icing on the cake, the South Suburban Airport could be coming to the area. Perhaps, former Gov. Bruce Rauner is wondering how all those accomplishments were completed during the Illinois General Assembly’s recent session.

A modern landline phone broke so a rotary phone had to be used from my mother’s garage. More than 45 years later, it worked. How many of us have anything in our houses that has worked much past the warranty, yet alone almost a half century?

Democrats complain that President Donald Trump didn’t use military action on Iran. They would call him a warmonger if he did use military action. Now that he didn’t use military action, they call him weak.

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