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This year, lawmakers approved a slew of new legislation intended to address Illinois’ teacher shortage. But Mark Klaisner, the new president of the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools, said school districts across the state are still struggling to fill open teaching positions.
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"The State of the Unions 2019", a new report being released on Labor Day, finds levels of union membership gradually declining over the past decade.
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In his Illinois debut on Saturday, quarterback Brandon Peters showed more than 30,000 Illini fans that he can pass and run and do both pretty well.
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Since 2017, farmers have sprayed an increasing amount of the weed killer, called dicamba, on soybean and cotton crops genetically engineered by agribusiness company Monsanto to withstand being sprayed by the herbicide. But each year, dicamba has drifted off-target and damaged millions of acres of non-resistant soybeans, specialty crops and other plants.
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Illinois Republican John Shimkus, who was first elected to Congress in 1996, announced Friday that his current term will be his last.
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The southern United States and the Bahamas are bracing for Hurricane Dorian as it slowly churns across the Atlantic and is expected to become a dangerous, Category 4 storm as it makes landfall in the days ahead.
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A recent report illustrates just how much harder it is for people who aren’t white to get small-business loans.
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A new memorial garden at Douglass Park in Champaign will honor victims and survivors of gun violence. The garden is a joint effort between the Champaign Park District and the local chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense.
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has broken his leg, and his office says he doesn’t know how it happened.
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Illinois is more than 200 years old. And today we’re revisiting our live show from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. We’ve got music from the era with Mike Anderson - who calls himself ‘The Dulcimer Guy.’ We talk with kids who won a statewide art contest for Illinois. And find out what the official beer of the Illinois Bicentennial tastes like.
