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The Illinois State Senator representing much of the area covered by the Mahomet Aquifer, says he’s got ideas for a task force looking at ways to protect the aquifer from future accidental contamination.
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House Republicans on Friday released a partisan and bitterly disputed memo that they say shows surveillance abuses in the early stages of the FBI's investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Politicians have been quoting Abraham Lincoln for as long as they’ve been giving speeches. Republican Governor Bruce Rauner was no different when he gave his State of the State address on Wednesday. But this time around, something went wrong.
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Partisan politics may meet its match in the 2018 farm bill. The massive legislation, versions of which will be introduced this spring in the U.S. House and Senate, is shaping up to be less about political affiliations and more about finding common ground.
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Thursday, February First was the day that the Catholic hospitals in Urbana and Danville changed their ownership from Presence Health to OSF Healthcare. They also changed their names.
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Prairie Rivers Network and Earthjustice say they will sue the energy company Dynegy for allowing toxic waste to leak into the Middle Fork of the Vermilion River.
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For some women addicted to opioids, selling sex to buy drugs can go become a dangerous way of life. When they want to seek help, treatment options are not always available quickly enough to provide them a safe path to recovery.
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Republican Governor Bruce Rauner likely considered the upcoming election while crafting the State of the State Address he gave Wednesday. There's a host of Democratic candidates vying to unseat him - and a single Republican who says she wants to get him out the way during the primary this March. They too are sticking to campaign points.
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Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner delivered his State of the State Address Wednesday to a joint session of the Illinois General Assembly.
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Less than an hour before Gov. Bruce Rauner was scheduled to deliver his State of the State address, lawmakers in the House and Senate voted to override his veto of a small, technical school funding bill necessary to implement the massive school funding reform that Rauner has listed as his main accomplishment.
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