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Angela Allen credits director Carol Reed for getting her started in film. The post-screening discussion following the 1949 film noir 'The Third Man', Thursday night at Roger Ebert's Film Festival was kind of cinema history lesson for the crowd at Champaign's Virginia Theatre.
The speaker of the Illinois House made a rare policy speech during a debate on Tuesday. It was intended to put in context legislative Democrats’ long-running dispute with the Republican governor over state spending.
Cities in Illinois and across the country have laws regulating panhandling. But courts are tossing them out, and Springfield’s ordinance could be next. How can local governments balance First Amendment rights and maintaining public order?
WIU President Jack Thomas has announced layoffs of around 110 additional non-faculty personnel, as the school in Macomb continues to grapple with the state budget stalemate.
Champaign Central High School and other nearby neighborhood properties are on this year's list of endangered historic sites from the group Landmarks Illinois.
