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Pritzker Names Education Advisory Team
Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker Tuesday announced his seventh transition team. This one is charged with advising Pritzker on policies for all levels of education.
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Gov.-elect J.B. Pritzker Tuesday announced his seventh transition team. This one is charged with advising Pritzker on policies for all levels of education.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is seeking comment on a proposal by Dynegy Energy Midwest to install a rock wall to prevent millions of gallons of coal ash from polluting the Middle Fork River in Vermilion County.
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Commentary: Trying to impose his will rather than seeking compromise, and calling counterparts corrupt got the one-term politician nowhere.
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Breastfeeding provides health benefits to both moms and babies. A public-health initiative in Champaign-Urbana aims to get more local businesses to support the practice.
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College in Illinois is becoming more expensive on average, and fewer students are graduating from the state’s large public universities. That’s according to a decade’s-worth of federal education data.
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The city of Urbana has hired a consulting firm to create a thirty-year master plan for city facilities. The project has been one of Diane Marlin’s priorities as mayor of Urbana, and something she says is 15 to 20 years overdue for the city.
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Slow speeds, bad coverage and expensive service. These are just some of the concerns contained in nearly 300 public comments on Rural Broadband Pilot Program proposed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a review by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting found.
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Head football coach Lovie Smith gets a two-year contract extension despite a 9-27 record in three seasons.
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As this year’s flu season approaches, Dr. John Christenson, a professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Disease and Global Health, says the biggest challenges doctors face when it comes to the flu are the misconceptions.
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First seen as a problem mainly confined to hospitals and nursing homes, research suggests C. diff rates in the community are on the rise, and that traditional risk factors may no longer tell the whole story.