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The speaker of the Illinois House made a rare policy speech during a debate on Tuesday. It was intended to put in context legislative Democrats’ long-running dispute with the Republican governor over state spending.
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Cities in Illinois and across the country have laws regulating panhandling. But courts are tossing them out, and Springfield’s ordinance could be next. How can local governments balance First Amendment rights and maintaining public order?
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WIU President Jack Thomas has announced layoffs of around 110 additional non-faculty personnel, as the school in Macomb continues to grapple with the state budget stalemate.
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Champaign Central High School and other nearby neighborhood properties are on this year's list of endangered historic sites from the group Landmarks Illinois.
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The late film critic Roger Ebert once hailed filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro as the most challenging in fantasy films, because he invents from scratch. Del Toro brought 2015's "Crimson Peak" which he calls a 'gothic romance', to Champaign's Virginia Theatre to open the 18th Annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival Wednesday.
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The city of Champaign Wednesday released two letters citing internal investigations regarding Officer Matt Rush. One cites Rush's 'disciplinary history and judgment in crisis situations', while the other documents the officer's alleged behavior in a local bar in late February. He's been the subject of four excessive force lawsuits, three of them resulting in $320-thousand in settlements.
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Roger Ebert Fellows Riane Lenzner-White, Shalayne Pulia, and Ashish Valentine preview the 2016 Ebertfest line-up, what they're excited to see, and what to expect at the festival.
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Vic McIntosh, who served from 1998-2009 and 2012 to present, says he's moving to unincorporated Urbana. It's the council's second resignation in recent weeks. McIntosh held off on this announcement earlier this year, after learning that Marci Dodds was resigning her seat in District 4.
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The victory started a stretch of ten out of eleven games at home for the Illini.
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Illinois' top legislators and the governor met Tuesday for the first time this year. There's no indication it led to any resolution of the state's prolonged budget stalemate.
