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Techno Talk Will Microsoft’s Surface Pro 3 replace your laptop? That’s the $1 million question. Microsoft officials say it absolutely can — and they’re right. The Surface Pro 3 is Microsoft’s newest t…

CNB Bank & Trust has announced that Joe Orrico has been promoted to Assistant Vice President and Kelly Wood has been promoted to Assistant Vice President. These promotions followed the board of di…

  Baseball’s best players were scheduled to gather in Minneapolis this week to participate in the All-Star Game. If you’re a fan or even a “weekend athlete,” you can admire these players for their abi…

Another school year is drawing to a close. If you have young children, you might be planning for their summer activities. But you also might want to look even farther into the future — to the day when…

As you save and invest for retirement, what are your ultimate goals? Do you plan on traveling the world? Purchasing a vacation home? Pursuing your hobbies? People often think and plan for these costs.…

It’s a third smaller than a pencil-thin triple-A battery, monitors heart rhythm continuously for up to three years and was recently implanted in a patient for only the second time in Illinois by a phy…

On April 22, we celebrate Earth Day — a day devoted to education and action on environmental issues. As a citizen of the world, you may have a keen interest in protecting your physical surroundings. A…

  If you’re one of the “millennials” — the generation that began in the early 1980s — you are still in the early stages of your career. Retirement must seem like a long way off — yet, it’s never too s…

There’s nothing more important in the world to you than your family. However, your family-owned business probably comes in second. So when it comes to protecting both your family and your business, yo…

The days are getting longer and warmer — a sure indication of the arrival of spring. Another sign of the season may be the urge you get to do some spring cleaning. But you might not have realized that…