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The plan failed to address excess groundwater contamination and did not demonstrate that sufficient funds were available, the IEPA said.

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Plenty of people have heard of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, but Holland and several Michigan communities were also hit hard by wildfires that same fall.

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