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'There's no other place in the country where there’s the coaching and the staff combination that there is at Illinois,' said Parkland student Daniel Romanchuk, who set the American record in the men's wheelchair race and become the youngest winner ever.

BOSTON — It was a surreal experience for Daniel Romanchuk, who was all by himself in the closing miles of Monday’s Boston Marathon.

The 6-0 vote doesn't set aside that money, but indicates to the city of Champaign and the developer, Core Spaces, how much it plans to contribute to the project, which includes a major expansion of the 20-year-old Illinois Terminal.

CHAMPAIGN — The major development known as The Yards got a vote of approval Monday by the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District board.

The proposal from Green Street Realty calls for a five-story mixed-use building with retail on the ground floor and apartments above on two lots at 1007 and 1011 W. University Ave.

URBANA — Oftentimes, when housing developments go before the Urbana City Council, the discussion isn't short.

Kimmel's plea comes a week after she and 15 other parents were hit with a superseding indictment adding the money-laundering charge, which itself came a day after 13 parents agreed to plead guilty to a single charge.

CHAMPAIGN — Former Busey board member Elisabeth Meyer Kimmel pleaded not guilty to mail fraud and money laundering, the two charges she's facing in the college-admissions scandal.

Today is Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, representatives from the Urbana Association of Commerce, the Champaign Chamber of Commerce and the University of Illinois met to try to come up with a comprehensive drainage plan.
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As if the guest list isn't intriguing enough — Brad Underwood, Frank Martin and Tim Miles, among others — the live-auction items should spice up tonight's annual Coaches vs. Cancer fundraiser at Gordyville.

Today is Tuesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2019. There are 259 days left in the year.
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On April 16, 2007, in one of America's worst school attacks, a college senior killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life.
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A 1- to 2-percentage-point increase in the city's 6 percent tax was part of Mayor Rickey Williams' original budget proposal in February, but aldermen have balked at voting on it while the bidding process to host the tournament was ongoing.

The Illiana Genealogical & Historical Society Foundation will present its second annual historic preservation award to Don and Sue Richter at a banquet April 25 at Turtle Run Banquet Center in Danville.

DANVILLE — A Fithian couple will be honored next week for their "significant" contributions in preserving local history.

It's just the latest honor for Richard Powers, 71, a 1989 MacArthur genius grant recipient and 2006 National Book Award winner.

It had been 60 years since a University of Illinois alum was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — Robert Lewis Taylor, from the Class of 1933.