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As Mattoon continues to recover from a school shooting almost two weeks ago, Mattoon native Will Leitch talks about how his hometown is coping.

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The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in Gill v. Whitford, a Wisconsin case challenging partisan legislative maps. Wendy Tam Cho is a political science professor on the University of Illinois Urbana campus. Cho says this case is particularly important because it could determine the court’s role in future cases on gerrymandering.

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Illinois’ new school funding plan — approved in August and hailed as a historic change — relies on the legislature to give every school the same state aid it got last year, plus push another $350 million through a new formula.

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An in-depth look at the Illinois High School Association, or IHSA, is the newest addition to the oral history project posted online by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield

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The Mayor of Champaign has appointed five people to serve on a new police review committee. 

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The latest numbers on the Illinois economy continues to show slow growth.

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A gunman who fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip has killed more than 58 people, police say. Some 515 others were wounded in the mass shooting and panic that ensued. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

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President Trump solemnly addressed the nation Monday morning about Sunday night's mass shooting in Las Vegas, saying Americans are "joining together in sadness, shock and grief."

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Temporary workers in Illinois have more protections after Republican Governor Bruce Rauner signed a bill championed by an area lawmaker. 

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Lovie Smith made no excuses after Nebraska embarrassed his second Illini football team 28-6 on its own field.  He said everyone on the team is subject to scrutiny, and that includes himself.