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A constitutional amendment that would allow the General Assembly to set higher tax rates on greater amounts of income passed its last legislative hurdle Monday and will head to the voters for final approval about 18 months from now.

Amy Paul, Pranali Vani and Albert Lee.

Amy Paul didn't plan on ending up in Arizona. It just so happened to be where the Centennial High senior's grandparents had retired to and where the family visited every year.

Today is Tuesday, May 28, the 148th day of 2019. There are 217 days left in the year.
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On May 28, 1977, 165 people were killed when fire raced through the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky.
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Aaron Ammons said he came to realize the needs in April, the first election he ran since taking office in November.

URBANA — Champaign County's clerk says his department needs money — and lots of it, according to the county board chair — to upgrade election equipment and software.

It's another phrase for perseverance, which was the theme of Terri Medwed's advisory group at Urbana Middle School earlier this year.

URBANA — What to do in the face of adversity?
Just keep swimming.
It's another phrase for perseverance, which was the theme of Terri Medwed's advisory group at Urbana Middle School earlier this year.

With four days left before the General Assembly concludes another exhibition of legislative malpractice, there's considerable speculation about the fate of what's called Gov. J.B. Pritzker's "think big" political agenda.

Today is Tuesday, May 28, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, registration at the University of Illinois increased by 83 students to a total of 3,900. However, the graduating class of 380 was only half as much as the previous year. Blame was given to participation in the Great War and the influenza epidemic.
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It is unclear whether Democrats have enough support in the Illinois House to pass an abortion repeal-and-replace measure. The bill was not called for an expected vote Monday in that chamber.

SPRINGFIELD — It is unclear whether Democrats have enough support in the Illinois House to pass an abortion repeal-and-replace measure. The bill was not called for an expected vote Monday in that chamber.

Three EF-1 tornadoes — each on the ground for about a mile and each packing top wind speeds of between 90 and 100 mph — touched down in Champaign County early Sunday.

Residents of neighborhoods hardest hit by Sunday morning's violent storms insisted that nothing short of a tornado could have caused 100-year-old trees to be uprooted, roofs to be blown off homes and power lines to be knocked down.

Today is Monday, May 27, the 147th day of 2019. There are 218 days left in the year. This is the Memorial Day observance.
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