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University of Illinois leaders are backing proposed legislation that would tie levels of state funding with performance metrics like awarding financial aid, graduation rates, and holding down tuition costs. President Tim Killeen says the 5-year pact would guarantee ‘baseline’ state funding would increase by the rate of inflation during each remaining year.
The grand jury indictment against Aaron Schock accuses the former Illinois congressman of spending $40,000 in government funds to redecorate his Washington office - including the purchase of a $5,000 chandelier. The U.S. attorney's office in Springfield announced the 24-count, 52-page indictment on Thursday. Schock says he will fight the allegations and expose the investigation as a politically-driven witch hunt.
On the 21st: Pulitzer-prize winning writer Margo Jefferson’s new memoir is about growing up in Chicago’s black elite in the 1950s and 1960s. And, we talked with writer and anti-war activist Bill Ayers about this political moment.
A University of Illinois professor says students of color on the Urbana campus have reported being threatened and harassed after the presidential election.
Latino/Latina Studies Professor Julie Dowling says she's heard students describe seeing a knife flashed at a Muslim student and other cases of harassment.
On the 21st: We talked with C-SPAN president Rob Kennedy about political news coverage. Plus, we spoke with a professor about reports of intimidation of students of color by Trump supporters at the University of Illinois, and we recapped elections across the state with Illinois reporters.
