The Champaign Unit 4 School Board approved a measure during a special noon meeting on Tuesday allowing the district to sell up to $73.4 million worth of school building bonds. 

A referendum on Tuesday’s ballot in Rantoul would have village board members elected from districts, instead of at-large.

In Danville, an elected mayor runs the city government day to day, and the city council sets laws and policies. That form of government is called mayor-aldermanic or mayor-council government. But a referendum on Tuesday’s ballot would have the city council hire a professional manager to run Danville’s government, and the mayor’s job would become a part-time one.

Democrat Josh Hartke explains several reasons for his opposition to a sales tax increase for county facilities in an interview with Illinois Public Media's Brian Moline.