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State Bar Association launches 'Lawyers Feeding Illinois'
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The Illinois State Bar Association has launched a food and fundraising drive to provide one million meals to the needy. John Thies, bar association president, visited Moline Thursday to promote "Lawyers Feeding Illinois" and tour the River Bend Foodbank with Rock Island County State's Attorney John McGehee. Mr. Thies said the bar association and its 32,000 members have raised enough money to pay for 138,000 meals for the estimated 1.9 million Illinoisans who are considered food insecure. One in five children in Illinois experience food insecurity, Mr. Thies said. Although the bar association's campaign officially runs Feb. 18 to March 1, the lawyers already have started raising money for the initiative chaired by Mr. Thies' wife, Terry. "We believe our efforts will help call attention to the ongoing problem of hunger as well as collect food and financial donations that directly help families and individuals in need," Mr. Thies said. Lawyers Feeding Illinois has set up about 60 teams around the state to collect food and donations, Mr. Thies said, and courthouses also will collect donations. The food drive is being run in cooperation with Feeding Illinois, the state food bank association. For more information on where to drop off food, make a donation or to participate, visit lawyersfeedingil.org. 
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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.
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