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chosen. More than 300,000 votes were cast in the 2023 “Coolest Thing Made in
Illinois” competition. The winner was the Rosenberg Moon Habitat manufactured by Ingersoll Machine Tools in Rockford, in collaboration with the Institut auf dem Rosenberg of Switzerland. The complex is designed to house two at a time on the moon. It is the world's tallest single-piece 3D printed polymer structure. A
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Section 5 of the Act, which limited women's working weeks to 48 hours and their day to eight hours, unconstitutional in 1895. After Governor Altgeld was not re-elected in 1896 and Kelley was removed from her position, flagrant violations of the child labor provision were reported.
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official state partners. The achievements of the IMA incorporated a $ 7 million “Manufacturing Jobs
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