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Bob Dylan Awarded Nobel Prize In LIterature
Bob Dylan has won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first American to win the prize in more than two decades.
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Democrat Mark Wicklund Discusses 13th District Issues
Democrat Mark Wicklund is challenging incumbent Republican Rodney Davis for Illinois’ 13th Congressional District seat. Wicklund’s lone political experience is a three-year stint on the Macon County Board that ended in 2013. The Decatur resident currently serves as the president of the board of directors for the Decatur-Macon County Opportunities Corporation, a not-for-profit agency that provides services such as meals for seniors and energy assistance.
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New PAC Aims To Tie Rauner To Trump
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and his allies are shoveling historic piles of cash into legislative races this year. A new federal super-PAC that goes by the acronym "LIFT" is seeking to counter that, by tying Rauner to Donald Trump.
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Remembering Steve Shoemaker
Steve Shoemaker, pastor, poet and long-time host of WILL-AM's "Keepin' the Faith", died Monday night after a ten-month battle with pancreatic cancer.
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Access Pipeline Work To Resume In Protest Area
The company building the four-state Dakota Access pipeline says it will resume construction on private land near Lake Oahe in North Dakota, where protests supporting tribal rights have endured for months.
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No Teachers Strike; Classes As Usual For Chicago Public Schools Students
Negotiators for Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative contract agreement minutes before a midnight deadline --- averting a strike that would have disrupted classes in the nation's third largest school district.
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JFK Speech In DeKalb County Heads To New Audience
With just weeks to go, much attention is given to the 2016 presidential election in the United States. But a look back in time reveals some topics were very similar on the road to the White House in 1960.
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Panel Exploring Champaign Police Review Board Starts To Get Public Input
The City of Champaign has started gathering public input as it weighs whether to recommend forming a citizens police review board. Monday's meeting of the 14-member Citizens Review of Police Complaints Working Group was first of two this week. The 16 people who attended the first at Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church cited concerns with they call an intimidating complaint process that needs to be better explained.
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Live Fact Check Of Sunday’s Presidential Debate
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton face off in the second presidential debate Sunday night at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. NPR's politics team, with help from reporters and editors who cover national security, immigration, business, foreign policy and more, is live annotating the debate. Portions of the debate with added analysis are highlighted, followed by context and fact check from NPR reporters and editors.
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McFadden Takes Another Chicago Marathon
University of Illinois graduate Tatyana McFadden has won the women's wheelchair division of the Chicago Marathon for the seventh time, finishing the race in 1:42:28. McFadden had a quick turnaround after her successful run at the Paralympic games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It was also her fifth consecutive win in Chicago as she pursues another marathon 'grand slam' (Chicago, New York, Boston, and London.)