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This year's HGTV list of the 40 most charming small-town downtowns in America highlighted one in Illinois. Who made the cut and what makes it special?

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Then David is joined by his Atlantic colleague George Packer to discuss Packer’s new profile of Vice President J. D. Vance.

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By DAVID CARLSON PASTOR Attempts to evade taxes have a long history. In the 1950s a man reported that he had imbibed two quarts of wine each week and two quarts of gin ...