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Jaime Smith's battle with addiction began with prescription pain killers and eventually turned to heroin. She shared her story with Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline.

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We continue our series “Veterans Choice: Making It Work," with a look at Veterans Choice at the local level. Guy Stephens visits some local Veteran's Assistance Commission offices to get their thoughts on the program.

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The Illinois General Assembly ended its annual legislative session last night without agreeing on a budget. Top Democrats and Republicans blamed each other.

As Brian Mackey reports, state government's long, slow financial crisis will accelerate.

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George Sheldonn the director of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has resigned in the face of an ethics probe and controversy over recent child deaths.  

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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan says new state hate-crimes legislation passed last week by the Senate will provide a badly needed upgrade to the state’s civil rights protections.

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Southern Illinois University in Carbondale is laying off 53 people and will not renew the contracts of another 26 employees as it tries to cut $19 million dollars in spending, spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith said Wednesday.

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The Illinois General Assembly is once again ending it’s annual legislative session without passing a budget, a move that Gov. Bruce Rauner calls a "dereliction of duty". 

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A memorandum issued by the U-S Attorney General’s office outlining how it will crack down on so-called ‘sanctuary cities’ appears to leave the city of Urbana in the clear.

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Veterans Choice is a federal program intended to reduce the length of waiting times for medical appointments. We continue our series, “Veterans Choice: Making it Work” by hearing from the people these benefits were designed to help.

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Nearly three-dozen activists were arrested during a sit-in last night at the Illinois State Capitol. Their goal: get lawmakers to pass a so called “People and Planet First Budget” — taxing the wealthy to pay for universal health care and free tuition at public universities.