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Trump’s Bolingbrook Fundraiser Met With Boos, Cheers
Donald Trump visited the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook Wednesday to raise money for his presidential campaign.
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Prussing Seeking 4th Term As Mayor
Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing is seeking a fourth term in 2017, making the annoucement at her Urbana home Wednesday. There could be a 3-way race for the office in the February Democratic primary, with Urbana Alderwoman Diane Marlin running, and fellow city council member Aaron Ammons reportedly weighing a run for the city's top office.
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Police Seek Suspect In Campustown Shooting
Authorities are seeking 18-year-old Robbie M. Patton of Champaign in connection with the shooting on E. Green Street in the Campustown neighborhood, that left one person dead and three others injured.
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Bias Isn’t Just A Police Problem, It’s A Preschool Problem
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Decline Of Jury Trials Harmful, According To U Of I Professor
The right to a criminal trial by jury is spelled out in the United States Constitution, both in Article Three, and in the Sixth Amendment. Despite the right to a trial by jury, fewer than five percent of criminal cases filed in court are actually decided by a jury. And that’s a problem, according to University of Illinois law professor Suja Thomas.
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U Of I Students, Community, Honor Shooting Victim
Many have heard the name George Korchev since the suburban Chicago man died in a weekend shooting in the University of Illinois’ Campustown neighborhood. About 300 from the campus and community have now learned a bit about who he was, while honoring his memory on the Urbana campus quad Tuesday night. Speakers included friend and U of I student Erik Lasaine, who was injured in the shootings early Sunday morning on Green Street.
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Judge’s Ruling Reduces Election Day Registration In Illinois
A federal judge has scaled back Election Day voter registration for highly populated areas in Illinois, a decision that sides Republicans who claimed in a lawsuit that last year's extension of same-day registration is unconstitutional. Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan's move on Tuesday temporarily blocks wider same-day registration lawmakers put into effect in 2015.
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Rauner Mum On “Safe Roads” Amendment
A proposed change to the Illinois constitution would ensure the state has a solid stream of cash going to fund road projects, but Governor Rauner is staying silent on the idea.
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Robert Jones Begins Tenure As U Of I Urbana Chancellor
Even before his first official day on the job Monday, the new chancellor of the University of Illinois Urbana campus felt he had to send out a campus-wide e-mail on Sunday to address the fatal shooting that happened in Champaign’s Campustown area late Saturday night.
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In Rare Debate Footage, Seeds Of Modern Politics
On Monday night, Americans sat down to watch one of the most anticipated presidential debates in the country's history. It happens to fall on the anniversary of the first and most famous presidential debate -- between Nixon and Kennedy in 1960. But that was not the first time two presidential candidates went before T-V cameras together.