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The Champaign Police Department is stepping up efforts to combat property crime in the city.

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Irma has quickly become one of the most powerful Atlantic Ocean hurricanes ever recorded, with wind speeds of 185 miles per hour. As this monster churns through the Caribbean and heads toward Florida, here's the lowdown.

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Fall enrollment at SIU-Carbondale dropped by over 14-hundred students, a decline of nearly nine percent from last fall. Carbondale's 2017 fall enrollment stands at 14,554.

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Do you have something to share about DACA? Or Charlottesville? If you have something on your mind, you have a chance to share it Wednesday at an open mic event on the University of Illinois Urbana campus.

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A pregnant woman in prison typically has 48 hours with her baby after it’s born before it’s taken away: an intensely painful experience for the mother and child alike that additionally has the potential to damage the baby’s development. 

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Lawyers for Brendt Christensen, the 27-year-old man accused of kidnapping Yingying Zhang, are asking a judge’s permission to withdraw from the case. 

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U of I and area police want to remind students a life is more important than a drinking ticket. 

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The Trump Administration announcement that it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, is leaving local students frightened in unsure about their future.

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The Trump administration Tuesday formally announced it will end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — also called DACA — putting an expiration date on the legal protections granted to roughly 800,000 people known as "DREAMers," who entered the country illegally as children.

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Illinois' child poverty rate is just as high as it was in 2010. Is the state doing enough to bring it down?