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For an area that has been the recipient of so much government largesse, people here still can get quite enraged about any level of government spending.

Here's a new batch of 10 UI grads sharing memories about the people and places on campus and around Campustown that they won't soon forget.

After hundreds of titles go missing from library, UI's Education Justice Project demands answers

DANVILLE — Holly Clingan had braced herself for the missing books.
But when she stepped into the University of Illinois' Education Justice Project community library at the Danville Correctional Center and looked around, she felt like she'd been punched in the gut.

The special hires will help lawyers try to see which way their potential selections lean.

PEORIA — After a week of qualifying potential jurors, prosecutors and attorneys for accused kidnapper and killer Brendt Christensen will meet Tuesday to narrow the pool of about 70 until they reach a final 12 and six alternates.

At 4 p.m. Sunday, St. John Lutheran Church in Champaign will celebrate the completion of a seven-year, 450-pipe renovation project with a concert led by Keith Williams, who spent countless hours on the work.

KEITH WILLIAMS has spent countless hours both renovating and playing the sprawling pipe organ at St. John Lutheran Church in Champaign.

Today is Saturday, June 8, the 159th day of 2019. There are 206 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On June 8, 1968, authorities announced the capture in London of James Earl Ray, the suspected assassin of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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In A.D. 632, the prophet Muhammad died in Medina.
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Today is Saturday, June 8, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, whistles blew and bells rang in Champaign to mark the arrival of soldiers at the train station from Battery B who served in The Great War.
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The changes come a little more than a month since a News-Gazette Media analysis of 81 employees' charges over a 19-month period revealed that staffers charged scores of catered meals, working lunches and snacks, flowers for funerals, and thousands of dollars in gift cards for student and staff 'incentives.'

It plans to introduce a resolution in support of changing a state policy that it sees as preventing districts from selecting vendors based on their diversity goals for women- and minority-owned businesses.

Jury selection, which Judge James Shadid wanted to wrap up on Friday, ended with 69 pre-approvals, so it will continue Monday. Then 12 jurors and six alternates will be selected.

URBANA — Though it seemed possible that pre-approval of potential jurors in the trial of accused kidnapper and killer Brendt Christensen would wrap up Friday, it will go on for another day.