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There Are Still Not Enough Beds For Prisoners With Mental Illness
The prison system has been in a legal battle over mental health care since 2007.
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Coal Advocates Enter Energy Fray
There's a new player in a battle over energy policy that's playing out at the Illinois Capitol.
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Shakespeare Corrected: Opening Night In Decatur
22 inmates in the Decatur Correctional Center recently wrapped on their production of Shakespeare's Macbeth. It's the fourth production for the Shakespeare Corrected program.
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Obama Library To Be Built In Chicago
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Rauner Administration To Restore $26 million In “Good Friday” Grant Cuts
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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Bill Allowing Schools To Share Mental Health Info Advances
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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Dan Walker, From Power To Prison
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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Danville Mayor Still Hopeful For Additional Casinos
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Former Illinois Governor Dan Walker Dies
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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Tweeting Lincoln’s Assassination
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.