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After video of a white Chicago police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times was released to the public, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel became the focus of intense backlash. He responded by firing Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy. In many ways this was history repeating in a city that has had twice as many police chiefs than it’s had mayors in the past six decades — and more than its share of police scandals.  

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EIU President David Glassman sent out a mass e-mail Monday to students and staff, saying there were no longer any plans at the school for additional large-scale layoffs, but said those lasting up to 29 days may be needed.  Glassman said more cost-cutting measures may be needed to bridge the school in Charleston through the summer.

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Illinois is losing topsoil – the layer of surface dirt that’s rich with nutrients and vital for food production. And the problem of erosion on Illinois farms is serious: In 2015, roughly one-fifth of Illinois’s farmland lost more soil than it made. Austin Keating has more.

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Gov. Bruce Rauner says Democrats are holding the Illinois budget "hostage" in order to get their way --- taking advantage of rhetoric that Democrats have used on him.

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The Champaign Unit 4 superintendent says the district has enough funding reserves to make it through the school year without any state funding, but says that is a last resort in a conversation with Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline.

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Muhammad Ali, the man considered the greatest boxer of all time, died late Friday at a hospital in Phoenix at age 74. He was battling respiratory problems.

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The state budget impasse is forcing Champaign’s Community Elements to make another round of cutbacks in its programs for the homeless this month.

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Champaign was one of nearly 200 US cities that took part in National Gun Violence Awareness Day Thursday, wearing orange - and trying to bring attention to the gun violence that some in the area say is at a ‘crisis level.’  Organized by Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America, about 50 attended a rally in Champaign's Westside Park.

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The cybersecurity consultant and part-time lecturer at the University of Illinois Urbana campus says contingent faculty members deserve a voice on the IBHE in an interview with Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline.

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Exelon Corp. says it will shut two Illinois nuclear plants, including the site at Clinton, because of legislative inaction on state financial support, but the company is still lobbying for the plan with legislators still dealing with the budget impasse. On Thursday, Gov. Bruce Rauner said he wanted to protect the estimated 1,500 jobs that would be lost, but wants to balance that with protecting rate payers and taxpayers, calling the company's Next Generation Energy bill 'a bailout.'