Illinois Stewardship Alliance Sets Policy Agenda for 2025

Goals Follow Upon the Non-Profit Advocacy Group's Recent Successes

Illinois Stewardship Alliance — the state's leading public policy advocate for local food and farmers — has released its agenda of priorities to pursue during the Illinois Legislature's 2025 session. The agenda was voted upon and approved at the organization's virtual annual meeting Tuesday.

Visit the Local Food Forum website to learn the details about the important legislation that the Alliance will be promoting; the action taken on the 50-year-old organization's first long-term policy platform; and the community leaders shouted out during the annual meeting.

Bob’s World, and Welcome to It

Today is the 2nd “Gotcha Day” for Hobbes.

We had just lost a darling cat to illness, and it was so hard we told ourselves we needed a break. But having had cats for all but a very few weeks since 1987, the pull was hard, and on Dec. 12, 2022 we found ourselves at the Anti-Cruelty Society shelter in downtown Chicago. This sociable and curious guy, then just less than a year old, essentially adopted us.

Though he still gets into some youthful mischief, he makes us smile every day, whether he’s peacefully dozing in his cat tower, bounding into bed for his overnight purrs-and-pets, asserting his authority as the boss of the house, or just being the lovable goofball in the above photo.

Long live the B.O.B. (Big Orange Boy) Cat. We’re glad you made this your forever home.