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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.

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One of the nation's most historical instruments is getting back in working order. Restoring a piano played at the wedding of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln is expected to take six months and cost $17,000.

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With Illinois in its sixth month without a budget, the state's top political leaders met Tuesday in Springfield. It was the first time they'd all gotten together in months. Was anything accomplished?

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A former prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's office says it took far too long to investigate the shooting death of Chicago teen Laquan McDonald at the hands of a white police officer. That prosecutor happens to be running for U.S. Senate.

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Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy has been fired after widespread criticism for his handling of a high-profile shooting of a black teenager that led to white officer being charged with first degree murder.  Protesters have been calling for McCarthy's dismissal.

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Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said Jacob K. Morrissey, 26, Mahomet, was pronounced dead at 12:45 a.m. Tuesday.  A report from the Champaign County Sheriff says Morrissey appears to have shot himself while in the attic of a Rantoul home late Monday night. 

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Jesse White, Illinois' longtime Secretary of State, was a student at Alabama State College (now Alabama State University) in Montgomery during the 1950s, and took part in the bus boycott combatting segregation on city buses.