A new trade deal aimed at cutting thousands of taxes and opening markets with 11 Pacific Rim nations has drawn heavy lobbying from some of America’s l
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History of scandal holds back progress on transparency Four of the seven Illinois governors elected from 1960 through 2006 went on to serve time in pr
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Last year, Frida Arellano came to Arcola, Ill., from Texas with her family to find work in the area’s agricultural fields. The job left her fami
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Join us for Illinois Humanities' second installment of the Latino Americans: 500 Years of History series, “The Long Journey Home.” This panel discu
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced on Thursday that his department will award nearly two dozen states with millions of dollars to bui
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Nearly a year after China re-opened its doors to imported U.S. corn, one former U.S. representative is recruiting Illinois farmers into a mass-action
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Champaign County landlords are reaping more than $20 million in tax exemptions a year by taking advantage of a loosely written state law and an interp
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Landlords of single properties are not the only ones getting tax breaks under the General Homestead Exemption. Companies that own cooperative apartme
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In the past four months, the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District shut down seven restaurants because of issues that put customers at risk. B
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A Champaign restaurant received one of the worst health inspection scores on record after inspectors found dried meat and blood on its wall in April.
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