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Today is Saturday, June 1, the 152nd day of 2019. There are 213 days left in the year.
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On June 1, 1813, the mortally wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence, gave the order, "Don't give up the ship" during a losing battle with the British frigate HMS Shannon in the War of 1812.
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Today is Saturday, June 1, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, E. H. Baker was appointed trainmaster for the Illinois Central Railroad's Champaign, Bloomington, Pontiac and Tracy districts and the Gilman line. He would keep his office in Champaign.
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Marquise Brown, 24, pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated robbery, admitting that on Jan. 12, he robbed the employee of a cash-deposit bag as he was taking it to the bank after the restaurant had closed for the day.

Prosecutors said in August 2017, Joseph Livingston, 28, allegedly answered 'no' to a question asking if he'd been convicted of a felony, even though he has a 2014 conviction for driving with a revoked license.

URBANA — A Champaign man facing weapons and drug charges has also been accused of lying on an application to get a firearm owner's identification card.

Illinois will become the 11th state to give the green light for recreational cannabis.
 

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SPRINGFIELD — Legalized recreational marijuana is on its way to the governor’s desk, and by all indications he will sign it.

Lots of questions during a short workweek, made even shorter by a tornado that passed right over the Mailbag's home office in southeast Urbana. The St. Louis Blues flag that was flying that morning was slightly damaged but survived.

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Middle Fork Forest Preserve is Illinois' first and only International Dark Sky Park.

PENFIELD — The new sign arrived late this week, announcing Middle Fork Forest Preserve as Illinois' first and only International Dark Sky Park.
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Prospect Avenue project: 'Try to find an alternate route,. We expect it to be congested.'

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— Construction will begin Monday on a $1.4 million project designed to repair the Prospect Avenue bridge crossing Interstate 74 in Champaign.

Richard Cross won't need Google Maps to get to today's Illinois-Clemson baseball game at Swayze Field. The ESPNU play-by-play announcer knows the Mississippi campus well. He went to school there and still lives in Oxford.

RICHARD CROSS won't need Google Maps to get to today's Illinois-Clemson baseball game at Swayze Field.

Today is Friday, May 31, 2019. Her are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, a referendum was set up in Monticello for approval of purchasing a school site, for construction of a high school building and the selection of a site.
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