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State officials have sent help to Louisiana after devastating floods hit Baton Route and other parts of the state. The Department of Central Management Services sent a volunteer this week to deliver 100,000 sandbags and 45 cots to help with the flood-relief efforts.
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Earlier this week, when Republicans rallied at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, it was as though they were on that classic game show "Password," where no one was allowed say the name of their party's presidential nominee. Thursday, however, Democrats took the opposite tack, saying the name again and again.
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Speculation continues to swirl over who Democrats will put up to challenge Gov. Bruce Rauner in two years.
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After hearing a number of comments from the 'Build Programs Not Jails' movement, on a vote of 15-2, the Champaign County Board Thursday approved placing a quarter-cent sales tax on the November ballot.
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Governor Bruce Rauner signed legislation Thursday requiring all Illinois hospitals to have protocols in place for diagnosing and treating sepsis, which occurs when infection causes the body's immune system to attack tissue and organs. The legislation was nicknamed "Gabby's Law", after a 5-year-old Monticello girl, who died of sepsis after hospital doctors did not check for the condition.
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A Champaign County jury has awarded nearly $10 million to a woman who lost her legs after being struck last year by a Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District bus.
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Democrat Josh Hartke explains several reasons for his opposition to a sales tax increase for county facilities in an interview with Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline.
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In just a few years, one has transformed the Illinois Republican Party from a perennial also-ran into a serious contender. Bruce Rauner been an agenda-setter, a shot-caller, and a rainmaker. And his party’s true believers couldn’t be happier.
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A nearly two-mile stretch of Windsor Road along the south edge of Urbana will be closed to traffic Wednesday and Thursday night. It’s been partially closed for the last two years, due to a rebuilding project and a dispute over defects that quickly appeared in the road.
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The Champaign County Board is expected to vote Thursday night on whether to place a referendum for facilities on the ballot for this November. The initiative would raise the county’s sales tax one quarter of a percent for a period of 12 years. Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline spoke with Champaign County Administrator Rick Snider about the proposal, including plans for the county jail.
