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Food and building service workers on the University of Illinois Urbana campus have voted to ratify new contract, avoiding a strike that would’ve begun Thursday, on freshman move-in day. 

Kathleen O’Gorman spent her summer on the front lines of America’s broken immigration system.

Many cities have neighborhoods where it’s hard to find healthy food, especially fruits and vegetables. In Columbus, Ohio, a new mobile market is bringing healthy food to people who live in these food deserts. It's part of a wider effort to see what helps people eat better.

Congressman Rodney Davis found both supporters and critics at his second Open Government Night, held Monday night at Parkland College in Champaign. But it was the critics who were the most vocal. 

The family of University of Illinois visiting scholar Yingying Zhang has created an endowment fund in her honor. The money will be used to support international students in crisis and their families.