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Monday at high noon — That's the deadline Gov. Bruce Rauner has given Democrats to send the school funding bill to his desk. The new state budget requires this revamped funding formula, but Rauner plans to veto certain parts of the plan.

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The Three Kings of Peace will hold another one of its neighborhood anti-violence marches in Danville on Saturday. And this time, organizers are expecting an out of town guest ---- gubernatorial candidate Ameya Pawar.

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Nine months ago an exciting event took place that made thousands of people wildly exuberant and happily exhausted. Oh, and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, too. And now, it's a Cubs baby boomlet.

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Governor Bruce Rauner announced this morning that he has appointed Stuart King to the University of Illinois Board of Trustees. King has received three degrees from the University of Illinois, and is a practicing physician at Christie Clinic in Champaign.

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In a hearing lasting less than five minutes, Brendt Christensen entered a “not guilty” plea Thursday in a federal courtroom in Urbana to the charge of kidnapping Yingying Zhang.

Prosecutors accuse Christensen, a recent University of Illinois graduate student, of abducting Zhang, a U of I visiting scholar from China, from a campus bus stop on June 9th.

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For the nearly 700 rural hospitals in the United States on the brink of financial collapse, relatively small amounts of money can be the difference between life and death. There are many variables that can strengthen their chances of survival.

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Arizona Sen. John McCain has been diagnosed with brain cancer, the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix says. McCain, 80, underwent surgery for a blood clot on July 14.

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The Champaign County Nursing Home got a much-needed break Tuesday. The surprise arrival of some payments allowed it to cancel its request for what would have been its second emergency loan from the county. 

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Republican Congressman Rodney Davis is holding another “Tele-Town Hall” this evening, and some of his opponents are hosting a listening party.

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State government came to the living room of a home on a tree lined street in Lombard Tuesday morning. It was a rare scene -- lawmakers from both sides of the aisle crowded around a kitchen table as Governor Bruce Rauner signed "Charlie's Law."