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The Mahomet-Seymour School Board may have found a buyer for its Sangamon School site.

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Josh George will be the keynote speaker Sunday evening at the Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation's annual campaign kickoff event.

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Lyric Theatre @ Illinois kicks off their 2017-18 season with the English language version of the Engelbert Humperdinck opera based on the Grimm fairy tale.

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Women in the Illinois Senate plan to advance their voices in leadership with the creation of their own caucus. Women on both sides of the aisle say they’ve had a significant role in crafting policy, but may not always get the credit they deserve. 

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With teachers devoting much of their time to preparing students for standardized tests, penmanship has disappeared from the curriculum in many schools. A new state law approved Wednesday will bring it back, to ensure elementary students get instruction in cursive writing — sometime between 2nd and 5th grade.

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Most Americans don’t have an advanced directive, a plan for their last days. Those plans require having a conversation about your wishes -- how much medical intervention you want, who you want to visit you, where you want to be cared for.

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Let's say you've got a student loan and you get laid off your job. Your loan servicer suggests something called "forebearance" — the chance to delay payments for a year or two. Sounds tempting, but it ends up costing you more money.

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University of Illinois media professor Jay Rosenstein has been a longtime critic of the amount of money spent on athletics on the Urbana campus. Now he’s published a series of articles that show that millions of taxpayer dollars are spent on U of I athletics each year, despite longtime claims to the contrary.

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Gov. Bruce Rauner is declaring victory after the House failed to override a key veto. The bill was a priority of organized labor.

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With the final week of veto session underway, the Illinois General Assembly took action meant to address sexual harassment at the state Capitol.