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Two proposed developments in downtown Champaign have joined together for what would be the largest conference center in Champaign-Urbana. Developer Hans Grotelueschen has moved his hotel and conference center project a few blocks south from its original proposed location at Washington and Walnut to merge with the planned expansion of the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District’s Illinois Terminal.
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Lawmakers approved a state budget more than a week ago. But the education portion remains uncertain. For the money to flow, Democrats added a provision that requires enactment of a new school funding plan.
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For Carolyn Parrish, a privacy professional based in Evanston, data privacy is just as important in her personal, everyday life, as is it to keeping her business running.
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If Congress approves, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be host to a $104 million center for research into new biofuels and bioproducts.
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A tax increase is not the only change coming for some Illinois residents as the new budget package is rolled out. The General Assembly approved a tax package earlier this month that raises the income tax rates for both businesses and individuals. But it also comes with an increase to the state’s earned income credit.
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No shortage of education headlines even in the height of summer for our weekly roundup: DeVos meets with "men's rights" groups on campus sexual assault; Students, colleges spar at reopening of regulatory hearings; Mizzou freshman enrollment falls, especially among African-Americans
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The family of missing Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang has increased the amount of reward money for information about her location to $50,000.
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently released guidelines on how law enforcement should reform their policies on sexual assault cases. It follows enactment of the state Sexual Assault Incident Procedure Act, which is meant to improve law enforcement's response to these incidents through required specialized training and policies.
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Researchers with the University of Illinois’ crop research project, Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency -- or RIPE for short -- invited the media and the public to a field day Thursday. Don Ort is the associate director of the RIPE project and a crop science professor at the U of I. He gave Illinois Public Media’s Brian Moline an overview of the project.
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University of Illinois trustees were told at their meeting in Chicago that the new state budget has funding for the new fiscal year and the fiscal year just concluded, but not enough to make up for all the losses that the university suffered during the two-year-long budget stalemate
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