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A pioneer on the University of Illinois Urbana campus passed away last week. Barbara Yates was the first director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives program from 1980-1985.

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A Champaign police officer will not face criminal charges stemming from a June 11th shooting that injured a 22-year old man.

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Taste of Champaign-Urbana happens this weekend in Champaign. The annual event hosted by the Champaign Park District is in its 47th year.

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Prairie Center and Rosecrance hope to merge by January 1, 2018

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The entire Illinois House of Representatives stood in unison yesterday to show they didn't like the way CPS was depicted in a political cartoon. Published by the conservative Illinois Policy Institute, this cartoon showed a black child holds a sign begging for school funding.

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University of Illinois administrators are condemning the “hate-filled violence” in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend. The statement is signed by U of I President Tim Killeen and the chancellors of the three university campuses.

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The Illinois Attorney General doesn’t know much about her possible opponent in the 2018 election, Urbana attorney Erika Harold.

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Illinois Republicans are gearing up for Gov. Bruce Rauner’s re-election fight. At a state fair rally Wednesday, they made clear their campaign will focus on one man.

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Suzanne Koenig and Joyce Ciyou of SAK Management Services talk about changes they're bringing to the Champaign County Nursing Home, which they've been managing since July 1st.

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Doctors who can prescribe a medication for opioid addiction, and accept Medicaid, are already scarce. But even fewer will treat pregnant women. At this most vulnerable time, when both mother’s and baby’s lives are at stake, some doctors even drop their patients.