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Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed an executive order, creating a task force to look for waste, fraud and abuse in taxpayer-funded health care programs. The panel will also try to prevent waste in state and federally funded Medicaid and employee health insurance programs. Rauner says the cost of state-run health care programs increase when no one's acting as a watchdog.
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One high school counselor says the budget uncertainty, particularly with the Monetary Award Program, or MAP grants, is pushing some students to attend college out of state.
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A stalemate persists, as Illinois begins a tenth month without a budget. Legislators are back in Springfield after a spring break. They now have a few months to also find an agreement on a new budget, to cover next year.
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Dierks Bentley, Little Big Town, Greg Allman and ZZ Top are among the acts announced for the Grandstand schedule at the Illinois State Fair in August.
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A conversation with WILL's Lisa Bralts and Tim Meyers, co-creators of the documentary looking at the history of Roger Ebert's Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign. The new documentary, premeiring April 4, also previews the 18th annual Ebertfest, April 13-17.
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Illinois lawmakers may soon take up the controversial question of which bathrooms should be used by transgender students.
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A week ago, Urbana aldermen approved lowering the fine for posessing small amounts of marijuana from $300 to $50. Alderman Aaron Ammons calls the higher amount 'egregious', and said it disproportionately impacts African-Americans in the city. The fine applies to someone with less than 30 grams of the drug.
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California and New York -- where almost 1 in 5 Americans live -- are on their way to raising their minimum wage to $15 an hour. And the activists who spearheaded those efforts are now setting their sights on other similarly liberal, Democratic-led states, including Illinois.
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The private fund-raising arms of public universities, called foundations, are coming under scrutiny around the country. Watchdogs have found questionable spending that’s led to resignations and legal challenges to their privacy. In the course of reporting on a University of Illinois professor, Monica Eng of WBEZ discovered a different way foundation privacy practices are raising questions.
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Frustrated by what they see as a lack of progress in contract negotiations, the Non-Tenure Faculty Coalition will hold a strike authorization vote for its members at the University of Illinois Urbana campus next week.
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