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One of the goals of Governor Bruce Rauner’s Turnaround Agenda is to reduce the number of local units of government --- which Illinois has more of than any other state.
Voters in the Champaign County town of Rantoul approved the dissolution of one of those local governments in the recent election. Or so they thought.
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University of Illinois professor Adrian Burgos, Jr. dubunks a long-standing myth about the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. NPR's David Greene talks with Burgos about Castro and baseball in Cuba.
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The Illini men's basketball team broke a three-game losing streak with a comfortable 88-74 win over North Carolina State in Tuesday night's ACC-Big Ten Challenge match in Champaign.
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President-elect Donald Trump and Carrier have reached an agreement to keep 1,000 jobs in the U.S., the air-conditioner company announced Tuesday evening.
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Many college campuses – including the University of Illinois -- have adopted the "Run, Hide, Fight" tactic that gained national attention during Monday's attack by a student at the Ohio State University. That student was later shot and killed by police. We asked U of I Police to explain the guidelines.
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An attempt to institute automatic voter registration in Illinois is dead. Republican Governor Bruce Rauner cited potential voter fraud when he previously rejected the legislation. Tuesday the House failed to override his veto.
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More than 40,000 undocumented Illinois residents, who came to the country as children, are protected from deportation and are able to work under an executive order put in place by President Barack Obama. But during his campaign, Donald Trump pledged to “immediately terminate” the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — often referred to as DACA.
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Governor Bruce Rauner and Illinois legislative leaders are scheduled to meet to discuss the state budget on Tuesday. But after a budget meeting on Monday, even people in the meeting were not sure if any progress was being made.
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llinois Gov. Bruce Rauner continues to demand legislators lower what businesses have to pay for injured workers. Illinois House Democrats scheduled a hearing on the subject Monday, and yet Rauner's fellow Republicans wanted nothing to do with it.
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H.G. Wells' eerie writing brought us time machines, aliens and a submarine, long before a real one was seen in the world. Still, one of his short stories spent decades unseen by his avid readers.
Until now, that is. His long-unpublished story "The Haunted Ceiling" is making its way into print for the first time, after being hidden for decades in the H.G. Wells papers collected at the University of Illinois.
