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Awais Vaid with Champaign-Urbana's Public Health District says staff is currently dealing with eight cases of mumps. The outbreak saw as many as 175 since late August, mostly among U of I students. But Vaid believes the outbreak could be over after the end of the fall semester.
Christmas lights are up at the Illinois capitol, despite a brief period where it had appeared the state budget impasse would keep the dome dark. That interlude led to another outcome, appropriate during the season for giving.
Some areas in northern Illinois and Iowa have been hit with a foot of snow.
A labor union of home health care workers has filed legal action to force the government to pay health insurance costs. SEIU Healthcare Illinois filed the temporary restraining order against the governor and comptroller. The state owes $11.8 million since July.
The labor movement have succeeded in making its voice heard, but that's all: The non-binding measure passed 15 to 1.
