Safety

If I'm being truthful with myself, I'm probably not putting out enough effort to properly recycle items. However, in my defense, there are a number of items that you'd think a person in Illinois could recycle, but can't. The list includes some curious things.

The fact is that every single city in America has a crime problem at some level. That one place in town that most try to avoid when they can. In Illinois, there are 10 places that have a bigger problem than most with violent crimes earning them a place on the 10 most dangerous places list.

I accept that this world has problems, but this is the one issue that troubles me the most. As you go through your day, there are 10 Illinois families who do not know where their children are, but there's hope that someone will have information that will bring them home safely.

I am the son of a postal worker who delivered mail in the Missouri and Illinois area for the better part of 30 years. That makes me an unofficial expert of sorts about what you can and can't mail. There are 10 very specific types of things you can't mail in Illinois no matter what.

You know that a crime is serious once the US Marshals get involved. There are many fugitives in Illinois now that are on the radar of this elite law enforcement organization and they are urgently working to chase them down as soon as possible.

Missouri and Illinois have something unfortunate in common. Both states had meat sold in their grocery stores that is now under a sudden urgent recall due to a dangerous contamination that can cause serious illness.

If you are blessed enough to become a parent, it's the first thing you pray you never have to experience. Sadly, there are 10 Illinois families who have children that have vanished into thin air in the past 30 days and the hope is that someone has information to find them before it's too late.

Even one missing child is one too many. For 5 Wisconsin families, this is now their reality as their children went missing in the month of May alone. There's hope someone has information that will help authorities bring them home safely.

A regular weekend ritual in Wisconsin is heading to your favorite water place and for some that also means swimming. You need to know that there's an urgent warning saying no swimming is suddenly allowed at 20 Wisconsin beaches for multiple reasons.

I come from a family of truck drivers so this is one of those rare internet rankings that I actually care about. Yes, even cynical me can be happy that the interstate that truckers say is the best in America goes straight through Wisconsin.