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The magazine covers rural issues and provides commentaries from Illinois leaders, columns on safety, energy conservation, gardening, a calendar of events, and of course, the ever-popular recipes from Illinois’ best country cooks.</p> <p>The magazine’s job is to help electric cooperatives communicate with their consumer-members who own the local electric utility. We’ve been doing this for more than 80 years. 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