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In his fifth run for Congress in Illinois’s 13th District, Rodney Davis’s congressional campaign spent just about $5 million. This is a $928,201 increase…
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Mary Miller, Republican representative from the 15th District of Illinois, has spent $161,844 on her 2021-2022 cycle thus far, compared to $575,024 from her…
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As Quigley seeks reelection for the seventh time to represent Illinois’ 5th district, he is planning to follow the winning strategy he’s developed: supporting the Democratic party, utilizing fundraising consultants and events and saving up for future contested elections.
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At the end of April, Bustos had gathered just over $450,000 in funds, but by the end of June, her disbursements were just over $240,500, accounting for over half of her donations. Specifically, Bustos has spent almost $30,000 on contribution refunds, giving back to her donors after announcing she is not running for reelection. This is her second-largest expenditure of the year, next to fundraising services.
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Democratic congressional incumbent Brad Schneider has sharply decreased his campaign spending from $3,024,001 in 2019-2020 to a spending just a little over half a…
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Recently released data on employee salaries of the City of Champaign and City of Urbana show that Urbana pays substantially less than Champaign and that the pay gap between the two cities has actually increased over the past two fiscal years, according a CU-CitizenAccess review. When the data for employees receiving under $75,000 a year is included, the number of employees increases to 315, more than double the 145 employees included in the compensation report the City of Urbana publishes.
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Prices for Ebertfest tickets soared this year with passes increasing between 35% and 50% from 2020 to 2021, depending on the type of pass. The annual film festival started by the late film critic Roger Ebert in Champaign-Urbana in 1999, was scheduled for September 8 to 11 at the Virginia Theatre in Champaign, but was delayed again because of concerns about COVID-19 pandemic. The festival had previously been called off in the spring of 2020 due similar concerns about COVID-19, but returned this fall with the price increases.
Almost 7,000 University of Illinois students may have returned to campus from Illinois ZIP codes with lower COVID-19 vaccination rates than Champaign, a new…
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Almost 8,000 students may be returning to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus from Illinois ZIP codes with higher COVID-19 positivity rates than Champaign…
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Several months after addressing increasing gun violence in a community update, a new report on hiring reveals the Champaign police force is understaffed. Urbana and University of Illinois police are experiencing some shortages, but have significantly less unfilled positions.