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General Assembly And Governor Reach School Funding Deal
Legislative leaders and Governor Rauner have reached an agreement on a public school funding formula.
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Another Rauner Staff Shake-Up
Governor Rauner denies his administration is in turmoil even as his entire communications team left his administration Wednesday.
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When An Overdose Becomes A Gateway To Recovery
On a cold morning last winter, Christopher Hinds says he woke up early, sick from withdrawal. He called a friend and they trekked across a highway, walking for more than two miles through the snow on a street without sidewalks to buy heroin.
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Rauner’s School Doesn’t Like His Veto
The CEO of the charter school in Chicago bearing the governor's name has publicly supported Senate Bill 1, which the governor amendatorily vetoed earlier this month.
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Candidate For County Elected Executive Says Proposed Salary Is Too High
The only current candidate for the elected Champaign County Executive says $117,000 is too high a salary.
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Unlikely Allies Join Fight To Protect Free Speech On The Internet
Following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., Silicon Valley tech firms removed far-right groups from search results, cut off their websites and choked their ability to raise money online.
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New Moms Need Daily Addiction Help To Stay In Recovery ... And Stay With Their Kids
For thousands of moms with opioid addiction, this is their struggle: keeping their disease under control during and after pregnancy, in order to keep their kids.
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Rauner Offers Conflicting Statements On Political Cartoon
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner offered conflicting statements Tuesday on a political cartoon critics have called racist, first saying he didn't have anything to add to the discussion "as a white male" before walking it back hours later.
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Family Of Yingying Zhang Appeals To President Trump
Yingying Zhang's family is asking President Trump for help in finding their missing daughter.
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Illinois Issues: Cairo Faces Public Housing Crisis
In recent months, a housing crisis that has been brewing for years in Cairo has culminated in a social disaster.