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Champaign Extends Moratorium On Video Gambling Until January
The city of Champaign has extended its moratorium on new video-gambling machines until Jan. 23.
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U of I Studying Feasibility Of Adding Ice Hockey, NHL Picking Up The Tab
The National Hockey League and NHL Players Association said Friday that they are financing a study on the feasibility of adding men’s and women’s ice hockey teams at the University of Illinois. The school's athletic director likes the idea, but says financial questions must be answered.
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With No Budget, Shelter Says Future Is Bleak
Across Illinois, social service providers are having to make cuts. The head of one shelter says without a state budget, its future is bleak.
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In Call With Alumni, Killeen Urges Calls To Legislators, Governor
In a 50-minute conference call with alumni, University of Illinois President Timothy Killeen said the best thing alumni can do to help end the state's budget impasse is to call their legislators and the governor.
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As Search For Missing Scholar Continues, International Students Express Frustration With Pace
International students said at a forum Thursday on the search for missing University of Illinois scholar YingYing Zhang say they are frustrated with the pace of the case. And they say people in Zhang’s native China are increasingly uneasy, too.
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No Budget Means Construction Will Stop On New Lab At University Of Illinois
The Illinois Capital Development Board has ordered construction stopped by June 30 on a number of projects around the state because of the lack of a state budget. You can add an agriculture lab at the University of Illinois to the list, and there are multiple costs possible over the delay, officials say.
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Frerichs Calls On Governor To Sign Insurance Death Benefits Bill
A bill on Governor Bruce Rauner’s desk would require insurers to notify families of any death benefits they may be due from lapsed life insurance policies going back to the beginning of the century. State Treasurer Mike Frerichs backed the bill (HB302), which won approval in the General Assembly in May — and now he’s calling on Governor Bruce Rauner to sign it.
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Little Visible Progress On First Day Of Special Budget Session
Illinois lawmakers met briefly on the first day of their special session to work on a state budget, quickly adjourning so that Democrats and Republicans could meet behind closed doors to strategize.
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Police: Autopsy Finds Champaign Teen Died of Undiagnosed Medical Problem
Authorities now say that a 15-year-old Champaign boy who died after what was first reported as potential bullying actually died of a previously undiagnosed medical condition.
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Security Of State Election Systems The Focus Of Dueling Capitol Hill Hearings
If two nearly simultaneous hearings Wednesday by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees into Russia's meddling in last year's presidential election revealed anything, it's that U.S. officials saw what was going on but were all but powerless to stop it.
In his prepared remarks, former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the Russian government, "at the direction of Vladimir Putin himself, orchestrated cyberattacks on our Nation for the purpose of influencing our election — plain and simple."