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Estate Sues Champaign County Nursing Home
The family of a Champaign County Nursing Home resident found dead on the nursing home grounds on a hot summer day is suing the facility.
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The family of a Champaign County Nursing Home resident found dead on the nursing home grounds on a hot summer day is suing the facility.
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Beginning this week, people and corporations donating up to $1.3 million for private school scholarships can get a 75 percent credit toward their state income tax. This was a controversial but bipartisan concept, adopted last summer to help forge a compromise in a big overhaul of Illinois' school funding plan. Such programs have taken off in other states, but it’s off to a slower start here.
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For years, Illinois 13th District Congressman Rodney Davis has been trying to get legislation passed that give local governments in rural Illinois a better shot at disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. Now, the Taylorville Republican says he may finally have his chance.
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The Illini men saw another terrible start, another impressive comeback, and another Big Ten loss Wednesday night in Minneapolis. Minnesota's Golden Gophers jumped out to a 17-2 lead and won 77-67.
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At least 82 rural hospitals have closed since 2010 leaving small town communities scrambling to provide lifesaving services. That’s not an easy task, and to find out why, Side Effects’s Bram Sable-Smith traveled to one Missouri town that lost its hospital two years ago.
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Bitter cold temperatures are breaking records across the Midwest this week. In central Illinois, the temperature is below zero and that's before the wind chill. There people who have no choice but to work outdoors look for creative ways to try to minimize the suffering.
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The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District wants people to test their homes for Radon gas, and officials have an inexpensive way to test homes.
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The sales of grass fed beef have soared in recent years from $17,000,000 in 2012 to $272,000,000 in 2016. But the grass those cattle eat could be changing in ways that will affect the industry.
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The Illinois Economy ended 2017 on a familiar note of slow and steady growth.
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Laws about divorce, pets and traveling elephants took effect January 1.