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Decatur Mayor Michael McElroy won another term with 47 percent of the vote in a four-way race, while Danville Mayor Scott Eisenhauer again held off challenger James McMahon, who he defeated along with three other challengers in 2011. Eisenhauer held 63 percent of the vote in a two-way race.
For the second time, the Champaign School District's effort to levy a property tax increase was rejected by voters.
Richard Blanco likes to say that he was made in Cuba, assembled in Spain and imported to the United States. The writer served as the country's fifth inaugural poet at President Obama's 2013 inauguration – an assignment that forced him to confront some long-standing questions about his own identity.
