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Cynthia “Cindy” Cunningham is one of the two Democrats (the other is the Rev. Frank McCullough, Jr. of Danville) competing in the March 20 primary to be their party’s nominee in the 104th Illinois House District, which includes Danville and Rantoul.

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Three Ford County men have been charged with arson in the bombing last year of a mosque in suburban Minneapolis.

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Will the pressure be too much for the long-standing speaker and state party chair?

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The United States’ population of farmers is growing older, and it’s more pronounced in the black farming community. The Trump administration has proposed to strip funding in the coming farm bill for a program that helps minority and veteran farmers.

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(Updated at 9:59 a.m. ET) President Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday morning in a tweet that followed a year of frequent tension between the two leaders. Trump said he is nominating CIA director Mike Pompeo as Tillerson's replacement, which requires confirmation by the Senate.

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Andreas Cangellaris apologized Monday after he said he received criticism of his actions during the recent strike by graduate student workers.

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Max Levchin, the computer scientist who co-founded PayPal and Yelp, will return to the University of Illinois May 12th, to be the Urbana campus’s commencement speaker.

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As Illinois attempts to balance its books, it’s dipping into pots of money meant to help cities and towns pay for services. And local officials are looking for options.

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Six months after the last family moved out of Champaign’s Bristol Place neighborhood, the last structure on the site has been torn down, to make room for construction of a new housing development in the coming months.

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Promoting education, preventing crime and job creation are three top priorities for the Rev. Frank McCullough Jr., as he seeks the Democratic nomination for the 104th Illinois House District seat.