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President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland was born in Chicago. While attending Niles West High School in nearby Skokie, he was involved with student government, drama and debating.
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Amanda Vinicky reports on key legislative races, the U-S Senate contests and the heavy turnout in Tuesday's Illinois Primary.
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Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten says interest in both presidential primaries contributed to the roughly 60,000 votes cast, but he says others, particularly University of Illinois students, were drawn to the polls because of a new same-day voter registration law. He says at one campus polling site, about 200 were still in line as the polls closed at 7 p.m.
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Updated results from statewide, congressional and local races in Illinois' primary election. Check back throughout Tuesday night for the latest information from the Illinois Public Media newsroom.
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Updated results from the Democratic and GOP races in Illinois' primary election. Check back throughout Tuesday night for the latest information from the Illinois Public Media newsroom.
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Exercising your right to vote on Election Day and campaigning for your preferred candidates are usually safe, low-risk endeavors. But in the first half of the 20th Century it wasn’t always peaceful.
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The Illinois Supreme Court has agreed to delay the implementation of a lower court ruling on hospital property taxes, while it considers whether it will hear an appeal from Carle. That means Carle and Presence Covenant hospitals in Urbana likely won’t have to pay more than 10-million dollars that the state says they owe this year.
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Champaign County Clerk Gordy Hulten suspects interest in the presidential primaries - and not the expansion in voting sites, is driving voter interest for the Illinois primary Tuesday. He expects close to 9,000 ballots to be cast before Tuesday, in 2012, that total was 3,600.
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Residents in the community of Arthur decide Tuesday whether to give up local control of their water system. But Mayor Matt Bernius says the sale, and the interest from it, provides an immediate source for repairs in the village storm sewer, as well interest for other work, like street repairs.
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"On Point" returns to WILL-AM Monday March 14. Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline talked with host Tom Ashbrook about the show and how he went from central Illinois farm boy to nationally-syndicated radio host.
