U of I to study MS in DePue

DEPUE -- Multiple sclerosis is being studied, again, in DePue. The DePue Village Board was officially informed of a second multiple sclerosis study to take place in the village. The news came at the board's regular meeting Monday night. Joel Cowen, assistant dean at University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford Health System Research, and several others attended the meeting to explain what will be involved in the study. DePue was one of five towns in Illinois picked for the investigative study because a previous study performed a few years ago, which detected nine cases of multiple sclerosis in DePue. According to statistics and population, only one or two cases should have been found in the village. Other Illinois communities part