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A spokesman with the governor's office says an unexpected windfall in tax revenues allows for the restoration of $26 million in grant funds ---- but deeper cuts are possible after June 30th.
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The bill HB3599 stipulates colleges would only share information with a student's permission and if students were found to be a danger to themselves or others.
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A former governor of Illinois has died. Dan Walker ran the state for one term in the 1970s. A Democrat, he focused much of his brief political career on fighting members of his own party.
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The son of the one-term governor confirms that Walker died overnight Wednesday in California. He was 92. In 1987, he was sentenced to federal prison time for fraudulently obtaining more than $1 million in loans. He's survived by his wife and seven children.
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Students at the University of Illinois Springfield began "live-tweeting" on April 14 - the date that that Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater back in 1865. They've continued, tweeting in real time -- 150 years after the fact -- about the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth, and the funeral cortege from Washington, D.C. to Springfield.
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Mahomet village trustees are poised to endorse proposals that include local "right to work" zones and the exclusion of certain topics from collective bargaining.
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The latest disapproving report from the American Association of University Professors offers familiar complaints and also paves the way for the organization to hold a censure vote against the university later this spring.
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RALPH Martire with the Center for Tax and Budget Accountability says his 4 steps would balance Illinois' budget within two years. He spoke at a town hall meeting in Champaign Monday.
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Prorated versus per pupil budget cuts to Illinois education funding.
