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Attorney Sally Scott of Chicago-based Franczek Radelet provided a brief history of the Unit 4 consent decree, and its 2009 settlement to address racial inequities. But community leaders who worked on the agreement want more changes in areas like discipline and hiring.
A new policy requiring criminal background checks for all new University of Illinois employees will not be implemented on the Urbana campus until November 1st, following a request from the Academic Senate.
Illinois will be among the first states to implement a savings program for the lifelong care of people with disabilities. The financial planning tool is being promoted at a time when many state-funded services for those with disabilities are not being paid.
Attorneys for the former U.S. House Speaker from Illinois say a possible plea deal has been reached in his hush-money case. A May indictment said Hastert agreed to pay someone identified as "Individual A" to keep them from identifying past misconduct.
Illinois is about to enter its fourth month without a budget. One of the state's top Democrats says the problem could be resolved within days, if the governor moved off his insistence that other laws pass first.
On Sunday night, a total lunar eclipse will coincide with a super moon and a blood moon for the first time in over three decades. When a super moon occurs the moon is at its closest point to the earth and can appear up to fourteen percent larger. The red tint of a blood moon is a side effect of the lunar eclipse where the moon passes into its own shadow. This combination won’t happen again until 2033.
John Frayne talks with Jim Meadows as he prepares to step away as host of "Classics by Request", heard on Saturday mornings on WILL-FM; Vincent Trauth will take over as host. Frayne continues to host "Classics of the Phonograph".
The founding editor of Deadspin made his name writing about sports, but has turned to politics in time for the 2016 presidential election. Will Leitch stopped by the WILL studios to talk with Brian Moline.
According to Jason Wojdylo, with the U.S. Marshals Service, the motion is specific to royalties that are due and payable to Crundwell for horses she once bred.
Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and Republican Congressman Rodney Davis agreed with the pope's words before a joint meeting of Congress Thursday. But they differed over funding for Planned Parenthood.
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