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Cancer Community @ Illinois in partnership with Carle Cancer Center will launch the Cancer Scholars for Translational and Applied Research (C*STAR) graduate educational program in the fall. The C*STAR program will give funding for six existing University of Illinois graduate students to work on a specific cancer research project for up to three years alongside a faculty member from the Cancer Community @ Illinois and a clinician mentor from Carle. 

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The prison system has been in a legal battle over mental health care since 2007.

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There's a new player in a battle over energy policy that's playing out at the Illinois Capitol. 

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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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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.