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October 28, 2017

Illinois Loses Homecoming Game To Unbeaten Wisconsin, 24-10

The Illinois football team lost its homecoming game to No. 5 Wisconsin 24-10 Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Champaign. Badgers Alec Ingold and Garrett Groshek scored on short runs in the first half, offensive lineman Michael Deiter added another touchdown on a trick play late in the game, and Wisconsin remained unbeaten for the season. 

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October 28, 2017

Champaign Planning Staff Supports Effort To Save Historic Sites

A Champaign preservation group won round one in an effort to prevent Unit 4 schools from tearing down several historic properties. The district plans to demolish the sites as part of the Champaign Central High school expansion.

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October 27, 2017

State EPA To Canvas Homes Near Gas Leak In Rural Mahomet

Illinois Environmental Protection Agency staff will be canvassing homes in rural Mahomet Monday, following reports last December of a natural gas leak from a nearby storage well owned by Peoples Gas.

News Local/State

October 27, 2017

Mariotti, Rotering, Former Gov. Quinn, Among Latest Democrats To Seek State AG Post

Former Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn is the third Democrat this week to express interest as a candidate for state attorney general, just a day after attorney Renato Mariotti and Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering announced her candidacies.

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October 27, 2017

Documents Offer Insight Into Soviet View Into JFK Assassination

Was the Soviet Union involved in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy?

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October 27, 2017

Unemployment Rates Fall In Most Illinois Metro Areas In September

The unemployment rate fell last month in all Illinois metro areas year-over-year, but job growth was mixed.

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October 27, 2017

Catalonia Declares Independence; Spain Approves Central Takeover Of Region

Lawmakers in Catalonia have declared independence from Spain, in a historic vote that prompted protests and celebration. The government in Madrid, vowing to halt any would-be secession, has authorized the Spanish prime minister to take over direct rule of the previously semi-autonomous region.

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October 27, 2017

Bump Stock Ban Fails In Illinois House

The Illinois House on Thursday tried and failed to ban the gun modification known as a “bump stock.” The legislation was a response to the mass shooting in Las Vegas.

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October 27, 2017

Local Filmmakers Get Their Closeup At New Art Film Festival

Central Illinois filmmakers get a showcase this Sunday night, October 29, at the 8th annual New Art Film Festival, showing at the Art Theater in downtown Champaign. 

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October 26, 2017

Chief Illiniwek Controversy Surrounds Homecoming Parade

There’s another new effort to honor the memory of Chief Illiniwek during this week’s University of Illinois homecoming celebration -- a decade after the U of I retired the Chief.