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Even before his first official day on the job Monday, the new chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana campus felt he had to send out a campus-wide e-mail on Sunday to address the fatal shooting that happened in Champaign’s Campustown area late Saturday night.

On Monday night, Americans sat down to watch one of the most anticipated presidential debates in the country's history. It happens to fall on the anniversary of the first and most famous presidential debate -- between Nixon and Kennedy in 1960. But that was not the first time two presidential candidates went before T-V cameras together.

On the next 21st: We'll talk about how conversations about recent police violence are changing. Plus, we'll discuss the trends driving fear of immigration in the 2016 election and talk with two medical doctors about why low-income racial minorities die of cancer at higher-than-average rates.

The country's high court has denied David Gill a place on the November 8 ballot as an independent candidate in Illinois' 13th Congressional District. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied the physician's request Monday. Gill says he plans to appeal to a different justice.

On the 21st: We discussed the gulf between rising household incomes and the number of Illinois residents in poverty. Plus, we took a look at a new exhibit at the Chicago Public Library and our weekly Illinois politics roundtable.

Last night, a crowd of about 150 gathered to draw messages in chalk across the University of Illinois campus as part of an event hosted by one sorority to raise awareness about police brutality.

A fatal shooting in Champaign’s Campustown neighborhood has shaken the nearby University of Illinois campus, as well as the hospital where the victim was expected to start work this week.

In this week's Legal Issues in the News, University of Illinois College of Law professor Verity Winship looks at family ties and insider trading.