Freeport

And Lewis [whistle blowing] gonna lose a yard on that play.

Tom Linebarger, 97, on the stop, out of Freeport, Illinois.

The transfer from Iowa, who, as a junior, will be the guy they'll look to next year to lead 'em up front.

Sometimes when a quarterback gets sacked, it is not necessarily the offensive lineman's fault.

the old buddha ben

I still have a P it was like freshman year football who's the who's the school that's their mascot is the pretzels Freeport there's the Illinois pretzels their mascot is the pretzels anyways high school yeah high school we're really yeah I swear I think it's Freeport But we were playing them, and it was a long drive from St. Charles.

We got dressed for the game at our school, so I had all my pads on.

So even in a bottle wasn't really an option.

I mean, he's by far the most prestigious person in their party.

But in one of his debates with Abraham Lincoln, one of those incredible debates with Lincoln, the one in Freeport, Illinois, and much ado was made about this.

It was almost a throwaway line, although it wasn't thrown away.

Lincoln pushed Douglas, and he said, do you mean then, Judge Douglas, as they always called him, never call him Senator.

And if the people vote slavery out, then they vote it out.

And his fellow Southern Democrats immediately started writing to him and wiring him and saying, wait a minute, Stephen.

Do we live in the land of the Dred Scott decision or not? It became known to Southern Democrats as the so-called Freeport Doctrine.

And Douglas kept trying to dance around it, avoid it.

It's funny, as we were talking earlier, my father just retired and I took over as CEO.

My father started when he was in high school at an in-store bakery in the late 1960s in a little grocery store in Freeport, Illinois.

It's been something that's been part of grocery stores for a long time, so Although grocery has changed over the decades as far as what products are offered and the breadth of the experience you get there, the in-store bakery still resonates and it's been part of that DNA for generations now.

And I think it's an opportunity for grocery stores to really individualize themselves or set themselves out against their competition if they approach it properly.

Don't forget, you can catch all of our shows as a podcast available at heartlandsignal.com. We want to talk about the Illinois 16th.

There's eight counties, Rockford, Belvedere, Sycamore, Morris, Galena, Dixon, Bloomington, Peoria, Freeport.

These are factory towns, farm towns, college towns, the place Washington loves to name check in speech and then forget about them the next time to vote on anything or pass any meaningful policies.

So here's what the town's got from this administration, a Medicaid law that puts rural hospitals on the endangered list, a trade war that froze out Illinois soybeans, then mailed farmers a bailout check to cover the damage, which is not something that they want, a Jeep plant and Belvedere that keeps coming back next year every year.

And the carbless talking text line list is more.

Let's head down to Freeport, Illinois.

Is that close to Hard Rock Casino Rockford, Freeport? I

don't know my Illinois jacket.

I believe it's

That sounds fun.

Let's get to a fun call first, though.

Let's talk to Jacob in Freeport, Illinois.

Yes, that's correct.

Yes, so I've been doing it now for the last four years where I, uh, tell the stories- On the evening of October 16th, 2013, Freeport, Illinois, was an ordinary place on an ordinary evening.

Darkness had fallen early, the air was cooling, and people were inside their homes settling into the evening.

In a residential neighborhood in Freeport in and around a cluster of apartment buildings near South Float Avenue and East Empire Street, something violent was about to unfold, something that would last merely seconds, and something that would kill one man and send a child to prison for over 50 years.

And she was like, "Man, look me in my eyes and tell me you did not do that." I'm not...

So I'm like, "I'm not, I did not do it." Like, "I'm not lying.

I mean nothing to nobody.

The victim's name was Carl Green Jr.