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The Graduate Employees' Organization voted to ratify a new five-year contract with the University of Illinois. GEO co-president Gus Wood said the new contract is an even better deal than what the union initially set out to get.

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Eight Democrats and two Republicans are vying for the Attorney General spot following the surprise announcement Lisa Madigan will not a fifth term. Here are all the candidates, at a glance, in the order they appear on the ballot.

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The chamber orchestra Sinfonia Da Camera is in its 34th season in residence at the University of Illinois.  The group is led by music director and conductor Ian Hobson, who is also the orchestra’s featured solo pianist this season.

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A tentative contract agreement has been reached between the University of Illinois and striking graduate workers at the Urbana-Champaign campus.

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​Nine young men with records of weapons-related offenses were presented with a chance for a fresh start in life, at the third C-U Fresh Start “Call-In” held Thursday night in Champaign.

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President Trump has agreed to a face-to-face meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "at a place and time to be determined," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Thursday.

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The Mark Morris Dance Group offers classes to people with Parkinson’s disease in 100 communities around the world, including right here in Champaign-Urbana.

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The Trump administration wants to show rural communities, which voted for him by wide margins in the 2016 election, they are still on the president’s mind. It suggested a list of broad ideas in January to spark growth and carved out rural interests in an infrastructure plan.

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Agriculture uses 90-percent of the world’s fresh water supply.  And as the demand for food around the world continues to rise, so will the need to find crops that use less water.

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Hundreds of classes have been canceled and dozens more relocated as a strike by graduate employees at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign continues into a second week. On Tuesday night, graduate workers occupied the office of university president Tim Killeen. Strikers have a variety of demands, but one of the most contentious points focuses on the future of tuition waivers -- and whether some graduate workers will have to pay tuition while employed in academic positions on campus.