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This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Molly, can you describe the scene

on opening day for a grocery store in Illinois called Rise? If I were there, what would I see?

To me, it was a magical moment that day.

Molly Parker is an investigative reporter for Capitol News, Illinois, and a local reporting

network fellow at ProPublica.

There were balloons, and the lieutenant governor was down, and she was wearing this lovely

yellow dress, and everybody was just in a good mood.

That's what I remember. It was like, this just felt good because so often I was going there

for situations to cover news that I thought was very important, but was often not happy.

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