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Startup costs of the engineering-based school are estimated at $100 million. At their meeting Thursday in Urbana, U of I Trustees also announced that President-designate Timothy Killeen will start May 18.
Years of politicians using money that was supposed to go toward pensions for other needs is largely how the state built its $111 billion pension debt in the first place.
The project would found an engineering-focused medical program out of a partnership between the U of I and Urbana-based Carle Hospital.
Requiring only a simple majority, three Champaign Park Board commissioners rejected the plan for a land swap with the school district to place a new Central High School in Dodds Park.
