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In contrast to homelessness in urban areas, rural homelessness is less visible, and its victims face unique challenges due to a sparse population that results in fewer available services.
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The National Guard-run program for at-risk youth in Rantoul was able to continue as scheduled in summer 2015, delayed only slightly to determine if staff could be paid during Illinois' budget impasse. But that same lack of a budget is giving off an impression that Lincoln's Challenge is not taking new cadets, just weeks from when the next class is scheduled to start.
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A stopgap spending plan will keep the lights on at motor services facilities in Illinois. The bipartisan measure passed the House on Wednesday, and the Senate's headed to Springfield on Monday to vote on it.
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Kent Ferguson is one of the Mitsubishi workers losing his job when the plant in Normal closes. Ferguson is a tool and die craftsman and talked with Charlie Schlenker about the plant closing and how the employees are doing.
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Brian Moline and Joanne Manaster (@sciencegoddess) from the University of Illinois' School of Integrative Biology discuss some recent scientific research on campus regarding biofuels and cancer patients.
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Illinois' unemployment insurance program will see some changes next year, the result of something that's rare in Springfield these days as a budget stalemate persists: hard-fought negotiations giving way to a compromise.
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Students are calling for U of I’s administration to do more to protect black students on campus.
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Law enforcement officers in San Bernardino, Calif., killed two people suspected of killing 14 people and wounding 17 others in a shooting at the Inland Regional Center on Wednesday.
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Champaign County Sheriff's Dan Walsh says Toya Frazier 45, of Savoy, was found not breathing in her cell early Tuesday evening, and later pronounced dead at Carle Hospital. Sheriff Dan Walsh believes that a medical issue is the likely cause, but Illinois State Police will investigate the matter. A preliminary autopsy didn't reveal a cause of death.
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Agriculture is already big business in Illinois, but the group FARM Illinois is planning for even bigger growth over the next decade. Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline talked with FARM Illinois Project Director Leland Strom.
