Nearly $100 this time. Add that to the over $400 from Facebook, and all thanks to this Great State's law's protecting privacy.

It does irk my wife some though, because we can't teach our nest cam that it's just me getting the mail and we don't need the notifications.

Been great to be an Illinoisan the last couple years!

R. Buckminster Fuller, creator of the buckyball, was a professor at SIU in Carbondale in the 1960's. At that time, he built and lived in a large buckyball home, which has been restored and will soon be a museum to the man and his legacy.

A small town in southern Illinois reaches racial parity in their city council makeup, with a black mayor and equal number of black and white members. Oh, and they also have an openly trans council member as well...

This from a part of the state where some people still fly Confederate battle flags.

There's already a community for the Chicago area (!chicago@midwest.social), but there's more to Illinois than the Windy City. Chicagoans are welcome, but I'd like to try to keep news and things related to outside the northeast corner of the state.

Join us at !illinois@midwest.social