Some Republican lawmakers say the Illinois State House of Representatives may not have the votes to override Governor Bruce Rauner’s veto of a school funding bill Wednesday.
Urbana attorney Erika Harold is running for Illinois Attorney General. Harold announced this morning that she will seek the Republican nomination to run against the four-term incumbent, Democrat Lisa Madigan.
During a visit to a manufacturing plant in Champaign Monday, Illinois Congressman Rodney Davis says he was satisfied with President Trump’s original comments about the race-fueled violence that occurred Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. But Davis says he was glad the president made an additional statement on Monday specifically condemning the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups.
Almost 48 hours after violence engulfed Charlottesville, Va., President Trump called out white nationalist groups by name. Trump's remarks on Monday followed criticism that his initial statement about the clash of protesters did not condemn racist groups specifically.
In response to the events in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, about two hundred people gathered for an anti-fascism rally in downtown Champaign Sunday.
A water treatment plant has operated on North Lincoln Avenue in Urbana since the 1880’s --- but no longer. Illinois-American Water took the plant offline in June. And Monday is the day they plan to start dismantling it.
A man who appeared to be protesting Saturday with a group of self-proclaimed fascists is accused of killing a woman and injuring multiple others by driving his car into a crowd of marchers in Charlottesville, Va.
The Illinois Senate meets Sunday to decide how to handle Gov. Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of an education funding bill. But already, the state has missed a deadline for funding public schools.
There is now a Democrat running for the Illinois House seat serving parts of Champaign and Vermilion Counties. Cindy Cunningham of rural Royal in Champaign County says she will run for state representative in the 104th Illinois House District next year.
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