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Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has approved legislation to increase state funding for education, ensuring classrooms remain open amid an ongoing budget fight. 

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In the event the U.S. Supreme Court votes to end health insurance premium subsidies, Families USA has broken up the potential loss in states that don't have their own exchanges.  The head of the group says such a ruling would cause premiums to skyrocket.

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Brown, the 2005 Sporting News National Player of the Year and part of the basketball team that went 37-2 and reached the national championship game in 2005, will join Illinois Athletic Director Mike Thomas' staff for the summer.

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“I was violated, basically," she says. "I feel violated. I don’t feel like we have freedom anymore.”

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31-year-old Champaign Police Officer Jerad B. Gale was arrested by State Police Tuesday, in connection with the alleged sexual assaults of two women in 2012 and 2013.

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Lee and Grundy Counties in northern Illinois have been declared state disaster areas by Gov. Bruce Rauner, after possible tornadoes caused severe damage in the towns of Coal City and Sublette.

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Former University of Illinois basketball coach Lou Henson is back in a Houston cancer center for tests. The 83-year-old who will be inducted into the College Basketball Hall of Fame this fall became dehydrated last week and spent a few days at Urbana's Carle Hospital.

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A series of House committees will meet; one hearing will focus on cuts Gov. Rauner says he's making to Community Care, a program that helps provide elderly and disabled individuals with home care help, to manage the budget during an impasse.  The salaries Rauner is paying his top staff is the subject of another hearing. It comes after questions about Rauner paying aides he calls "super-stars" salaries above that of people in those positions under former Gov. Pat Quinn's administration. 

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Nina Totenberg talks about what's at stake in the Supreme Court's three big cases, living in Urbana for a year, and how the Supreme Court has changed. 

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Scientists at the University of Illinois are asking for help to document the bee population in the region.