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Illinois’ Municipal elections are this coming Tuesday, April 2nd. Vote confidently by reading up on your candidates. During WILL and Illinois Newsroom’s Democracy and YES! Civics events, community members created election questionnaires for candidates in Champaign, Danville, Decatur, Hoopeston, and Springfield.  Here are the candidates' answers.

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The group CU Trauma and Resiliency Initiative is working to help people better understand the link between trauma, mental health and violence; and an event this Saturday aims to bring together men for a discussion about the issue.

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Illinoisans can now get driver’s licenses and state ID cards that comply with Real ID, the strict federal security requirements that will soon be needed for air travel.

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Meat and dairy are piling up across the U.S. It has cold storage places packed to the rafters, and the federal government, which subsidizes the agriculture industry, looking for ways to alleviate the problem, at least in the short-term.

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The Urbana City Council is set to take a final vote at its April 1st meeting on imposing a moratorium on new video gaming terminals in bars. Mayor Diane Marlin wants the moratorium in place, while work continues on an overhaul of the city liquor code.

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At a public hearing Tuesday night in Danville the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency took comments from Central Illinois citizens, public officials, engineering and science experts, and environmentalists on Dynegy’s proposal to wall off the Middle Fork River near its coal ash ponds at the Vermilion Power Station.

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The Anita Purves Nature Center is the latest building in Champaign-Urbana to go solar. Solar panels are being installed this week on the nature center, located on the north end of Urbana’s Crystal Lake Park.

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Illinois lawmakers are considering a variety of bills that would change the requirements to earn a teaching certificate.

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Family structures—and farms themselves—are much more complicated than they used to be. Today, farm transition and land transfer are now among the hardest conversations families face.

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Some doctors see access to birth control as a tool in the fight to decrease maternal and infant mortality. Indiana has one of the nation’s worst rates of new mothers and infants dying, and those rates are even worse for black women. But a history of abuse has led to distrust of health care professionals in communities of color.