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The Illinois Innocence Project, based at the University of Illinois Springfield, has won a $641,000 grant for DNA testing intended to help exonerate wrongfully convicted inmates. 

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The Rev. Jesse Jackson announced Friday that he has Parkinson's disease, saying that he first noticed symptoms "about three years ago."

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The state representative for Champaign-Urbana applauds the people who came forward with stories of harassment—and she hopes those stories will change the culture in Springfield. 

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The University of Illinois Police Chief is retiring at the end of the year, after more than three decades of serving the Urbana campus.
 

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Cause the Effect Chicago PAC is one of three new political action committees, or PACs, that were created in Illinois with a similar goal of influencing state elections on behalf of women on the left.

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Members of Illinois’ Congressional delegation voted along party lines for the House tax plan that passed Thursday. The Senate Finance Committee also approved its own tax bill along party lines Thursday.

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It's been nearly 60 years since the Illini men played DePaul in basketball. Illinois won that game in December of 1957 at Huff Gym. Don Ohl and John Paul scored 18 points each for the Illini.

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The University of Illinois Police Training Institute graduated what some thought would be its final class Thursday in Urbana. But the institute’s director opened the ceremony by announcing that the PTI would continue to hold classes in 2018.

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The University of Illinois Board of Trustees has approved a 2018 spending plan.

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The House has narrowly approved a $1.4 trillion tax overhaul, clearing the first major hurdle in Republican attempts to cut taxes and rewrite the tax code.