Bill Allowing Schools To Share Mental Health Info Advances
The bill HB3599 stipulates colleges would only share information with a student's permission and if students were found to be a danger to themselves or others.
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Dan Walker, From Power To Prison
A former governor of Illinois has died. Dan Walker ran the state for one term in the 1970s. A Democrat, he focused much of his brief political career on fighting members of his own party.
Former Illinois Governor Dan Walker Dies
The son of the one-term governor confirms that Walker died overnight Wednesday in California. He was 92. In 1987, he was sentenced to federal prison time for fraudulently obtaining more than $1 million in loans. He's survived by his wife and seven children.
Tweeting Lincoln’s Assassination
Students at the University of Illinois Springfield began "live-tweeting" on April 14 - the date that that Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theater back in 1865. They've continued, tweeting in real time -- 150 years after the fact -- about the pursuit of John Wilkes Booth, and the funeral cortege from Washington, D.C. to Springfield.
