The singer and songwriter who helped popularize folk music in the 1960s died of bladder cancer at his home in New York.

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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS: A four-hour House Democratic Caucus meeting in Springfield was so contentious that a member of Gov. JB Pritzker ’s team left in tears and the hemp legislation that was at the ...