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State Humanities Group Seeks Urban, Rural Common Ground

The non-profit group serving as the Illinois affiliate to the National Endowment for the Humanities is holding a series of meetings statewide in an attempt to find common ground between urban and rural parts of the state. 

 

Illinois Humanities manager of statewide engagement, Matt Meacham (MEECH-um), says its public forum next Tuesday will examine law enforcement and community relations in Rockford;

 

 

For every forum in a city, Illinois Humanities plans to hold one in a rural community. The group will hold a session on the social and economic impacts of incarceration next month in Thomson, home of a state-turned federal, maximum security prison in northwest Illinois;

 

 

While based in Chicago, Illinois Humanities also has offices in downstate Edwardsville. It plans additional city-country forums through 20-19.

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