Today's procession for state trooper: Champaign to St. Joseph

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When Corey Thompsen was in high school, he and his fellow cross-country runners would race across the old wooden trestle bridge in St. Joseph.

"While looking back now," said Braydon Crozier, a close friend and former St. Joseph-Ogden teammate, "I laugh at how dumb we were doing this."

Crozier said the task was scary because the trestle was rotting and had multiple holes and gaps.

But Thompsen showed his trademark tenacity.

"Corey had a smile from ear to ear and laughed with every step across that trestle," Crozier said.

Crozier said it was how Thompsen approached everything, including his career with the Illinois State Police.Famed polling expert Nate Silver currently shows Harris with a point lead nationally but slightly behind in several key battleground states.

"In an election where the seven battleground states are all polling within a percentage point or two, 50-50 is the only responsible forecast," Silver wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed.

Those seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — will ultimately decide the election.Famed polling expert Nate Silver currently shows Harris with a point lead nationally but slightly behind in several key battleground states.

"In an election where the seven battleground states are all polling within a percentage point or two, 50-50 is the only responsible forecast," Silver wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed.

Those seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — will ultimately decide the election.Famed polling expert Nate Silver currently shows Harris with a point lead nationally but slightly behind in several key battleground states.

"In an election where the seven battleground states are all polling within a percentage point or two, 50-50 is the only responsible forecast," Silver wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed.

Those seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — will ultimately decide the election.Famed polling expert Nate Silver currently shows Harris with a point lead nationally but slightly behind in several key battleground states.

"In an election where the seven battleground states are all polling within a percentage point or two, 50-50 is the only responsible forecast," Silver wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed.

Those seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — will ultimately decide the election.Famed polling expert Nate Silver currently shows Harris with a point lead nationally but slightly behind in several key battleground states.

"In an election where the seven battleground states are all polling within a percentage point or two, 50-50 is the only responsible forecast," Silver wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed.

Those seven states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — will ultimately decide the election.Famed polling expert Nate Silver currently shows Harris with a point lead nationally but slightly behind in several key battleground states.

"In an election where the seven battleground states are all polling within a percentage point or two, 50-50 is the only responsible forecast," Silver wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed.

Those seven states

• Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — will ultimately decide the election.