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The Illini men's basketball team beat Rutgers 75-62 yesterday in Piscataway, New Jersey. Michael Finke scored 19 points in his first full game since suffering a concussion during practice on February 10th.
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Citing concerns over declining academic performance for black students in Champaign Unit 4 schools, some community members plan to ask the district to create a new charter school in north Champaign. Illinois Public Media’s Christine Herman learned more from steering committee member Nathaniel Banks.
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The union representing graduate employees at the University of Illinois’ Urbana campus is going on strike. That announcement came Sunday from the Graduate Employees Organization, after a five-hour negotiating session with a federal mediator failed to produce a contract agreement.
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Governor Bruce Rauner said in his budget address this month that the key to helping businesses in Illinois is cutting taxes and red tape, and boosting training for workers. He repeated that theme in a visit to a Champaign manufacturing facility on Friday.
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One week after a mass shooting at a south Florida high school that killed 17 people, Governor Bruce Rauner says he favors a bipartisan examination of ways to prevent such shootings in Illinois.
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A new art exhibit at the Common Ground food co-operative in Urbana features the work of five inmates at the Danville Correctional Center. The installation is a partnership between the co-op and the Education Justice Project, a college in prison program at the University of Illinois.
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WATCH: President Trump is speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. His comments come amid a debate about gun laws after a shooting a high school in Parkland, Fla.
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Dan Caulkins hopes to be one of at least 25 new members of the Illinois House next year. The Decatur businessman, Eastern Illinois University trustee and former Decatur City Councilman is one of three candidates on the March 20th primary ballot for the Republican nomination for the House seat in the 101st District. That seat is one of several in the Illinois House where incumbents have announced their retirements, after a grueling two-year budget impasse.
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The 35th annual Insect Fear Film Festival will feature ticks. The festival's founder, May Berenbaum, says even though ticks are arachnids and not insects, they chose to feature them because of their importance as disease vectors.
