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The trial for the man accused of kidnapping University of Illinois visiting scholar Yingying Zhang will go on as scheduled.

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The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has hired a new Provost, and they’re keeping the new hire in-house.

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Graduate students at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign worry that the Republican tax reform plan could make their education more expensive. 

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There are a lot of anxious graduate students at universities around the country right now. That's because to help pay for more than $1 trillion in tax cuts for U.S. corporations, the House Republican tax plan would raise taxes on grad students in a very big way. These students make very little money to begin with. And many would have to pay about half of their modest student stipends in taxes.

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The Champaign County Racial Justice Task Force wants to hear from you after it released 31 recommendations to improve racial justice in the county.

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Illinois Circuit Courts will be required to have a special treatment court for veterans, starting next year. The initiative aims to reduce recidivism among soldiers who are struggling with mental health and addiction. The tenth circuit court in Peoria already offers a veteran’s treatment court and is awaiting certification to meet the Jan. 1st deadline.

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Restoration of step-pay increases is one of the goals of two AFSCME locals engaged in contract negotiations with the University of Illinois.

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Representatives from Peoples Gas are attempting to reassure skeptical residents in rural Mahomet that the natural gas leak from December 2016 is under control and it is working with homeowners who have contaminated wells.

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So, $1.4 trillion is a lot of money. It's what all of the NFL teams together are worth, and then some. It's more than twice the Defense Department's 2016 budget. It's enough to buy nearly 3.2 million homes at the median U.S. home price right now.

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A new book chronicles the University of Illinois’ role as a pioneer in computer networking. Brian Dear is the author of “The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture,” out Tuesday from Pantheon Books.