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Deere & Co., which weathered a five-week strike by 10,000 United Auto Workers this fall, exacerbating a backlog of orders for its iconic green tractors and other equipment, was also incentivized to choose Chicago by a different kind of green. In return for creating 150 full-time IT jobs, the company will receive $4.9 million in state tax credits over 10 years through the Illinois Economic Development for a Growing Economy program, better known as EDGE.

FILE – President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to the General Motors Factory ZERO electric vehicle assembly plant Nov. 17, 2021, in Detroit. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, is announcing 60 finalists for $1 billion in economic development grants tied to the Biden administration’s coronavirus relief package and aimed at improving job training and regional industry partnerships. (Evan Vucci/AP)

FILE – This June 18, 2014 photo shows the control screen on Harley-Davidson’s new electric motorcycle, at the company’s research facility in Wauwatosa, Wis. Special purpose acquisition company AEA-Bridges Impact Corp. is buying Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire unit in a deal that will makes the division the first publicly traded electric motorcycle company in the U.S. (M.L. Johnson/AP)

The McHenry County sheriff’s office and Spring Grove police responded to a residence in the 500 block of Sunrise Drive in an unincorporated part of McHenry at 9:40 p.m. Saturday for a report of a domestic battery, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. There authorities found a 25-year-old woman who said she had been beaten and stabbed by her boyfriend, Alexander Campos, also 25.

“It was just fun because (Rodgers) was the best,” Urlacher said. “You knew you were going to get his best every week, and I felt like our defense gave him a hard time. I know he was great and he’s still great, but our defense gave him fits because we didn’t change. We ran Cover Two, we made them make plays to beat us. We didn’t give them any freebies. We did a pretty good job against the big plays. We would make them run it. We didn’t want Aaron to beat us — even though he did. It was just so fun. And between plays, he’s a blast. He’d talk to our whole defense, not just me, he’d talk to everybody. And not crap-talking. Just, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ Nothing mean. Just talk. It was just fun, good, competitive banter.”