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What could the GLBR project mean for local economies? In the final installment of the Down the Line series, Guy Stephens talked with an enthusiastic Rochelle official and Chase Cavanaugh found more ambivalence from economic planners in Rockford about the potential value of the railroad.
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The agency's executive director, Isak Griffiths, says despite the budget impasse, the services they provide to domestic violence victims have actually grown over the last 18 months.
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Champaign-Urbana’s only domestic violence service provider will not receive about one-third of its $1.8 million budget because it was not included in the state’s stopgap budget.
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A man being sought for the truck attack on a Berlin street market was shot and killed Friday by police in a suburb of the northern Italian city of Milan, according to the Italian interior minister.
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University of Illinois President Timothy Killeen sent a mass e-mail Thursday, saying a merit-based 2-percent salary program is coming in February and March of next year. He said leaders have worked hard to manage resources effectively despite the state budget impasse. Administrators and leaders on each campus will announce the timeline for the raises in January.
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For one east Urbana neighborhood, the Christmas season means more than time with family and exchanging gifts. There’s also a sense of pride up and down the street when it comes to showing off holiday spirit on the front lawn, the porch - and maybe even the roof. Candlestick Lane started in 1963, brought on by a utility company's decorating contest, and is still a local attraction 53 years later.
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Former University of Illinois Urbana Chancellor Phyllis Wise, who has been a professor in the Department of Moecular and Integrative Physiology in past year, is reportedly leaving the campus to take a leadership position with the Colorado Longitudinal Study, a biotechnology reserach project.
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The largest college on the University of Illinois Urbana campus will have a new dean, as of January First.
The university announced Thursday that associate dean Feng Sheng Hu had been named the new permanent dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, pending approval by trustees.
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Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline spoke with Lisa Micele, college and careers counselor at University Laboratory High School in Urbana, about current and next steps for students and their families going through the college admission process.
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How do affected landowners feel about the GLBR project? Susan Stephens talks with property owners who would be affected along the proposed route in part four of Down the Line.
