The advertisement near a Breese high school appears to be a recruiting tool

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• A billboard promoting the Proud Boys, a right-wing extremist group, has been put up near a high school in Clinton County in southern Illinois.

• The group, which has been labeled a hate group, has ties to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

• Local leaders expressed outrage but said the billboard is protected by the First Amendment.

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BREESE, Ill. — A billboard rising from a Clinton County cornfield near Breese that appears to be a recruiting tool for the Proud Boys — a far-right extremist group tied to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — has touched off outrage in the small southern Illi

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