A Republican lawmaker from Mahomet will serve on a special task force formed to come up with new ways to protect the Mahomet Aquifer. 

The labor movement have succeeded in making its voice heard, but that's all: The non-binding measure passed 15 to 1.

Since February, forty-three shooting investigations have been opened in Champaign-Urbana, and three shootings in only the last two weeks in Rantoul.