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The statistics are clear: Rural America is deeply impacted by the opioid crisis, especially farmers and farm workers. What’s not so easy is figuring out what to do about it, three national agricultural leaders said Sunday, though they all said the real onus is on local communities.

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The organization Sistering CU trains volunteers from the community to offer a helping hand to new parents, with an emphasis on "mothering the mother."

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Guillermo del Toro's The Shape Of Water took home the evening's biggest prize, best picture. The film follows a mute cleaning woman who falls in love with an amphibian creature in a Cold War-era government lab. The Shape of Water also won Academy Awards for directing (Guillermo Del Toro), music (Alexandre Desplat) and production design.

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Actor and central Illinois native David Ogden Stiers has died at age 75, according to multiple news reports.

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Democratic Illinois governor candidates J.B. Pritzker, Chris Kennedy and Daniel Biss traded some familiar criticisms Friday in an otherwise tame primary debate that also touched on the role of Latinos in their campaigns and possible incentives for Amazon.

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Illinois climate experts say the state saw its wettest February on record this year.

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llinois hospitals are one step closer to saving a program that generates a lot of money used to treat low-income patients. State lawmakers overwhelmingly approved a plan on Wednesday that revamps the so-called hospital assessment program.  

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Governor Bruce Rauner has named Michael Hoffman as his new senior advisor to oversee the state’s response to the multiple outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease at the state-run veterans’ home in Quincy

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It’s a busy weekend for the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra.  Friday night they have a concert at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana. Then Saturday, they welcome five finalists from the CUSO Overture Composition Competition to the Hilton Garden Inn in Champaign for a reading session that’s open to the public starting at 10am.

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On behalf of partners, POLITICO, the University of Chicago’s non-partisan Institute of Politics, and WBEZ Chicago, WBEZ presented a live public forum Thursday evening featuring the 2018 Illinois Democratic gubernatorial candidates discussing their respective visions for the future of our state.