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Officials say the University of Illinois spent an estimated $30,000 to bring Vice President Joe Biden to campus as part of a White House campaign to reduce college sexual assaults.Click to Continue »

A southwestern Illinois school district has settled a federal civil rights complaint filed by a family who says their son was the target of racial slurs and bullying.Click to Continue »

Authorities say a dog was forgotten and left for several days inside a Chicago Animal Care and Control van.Click to Continue »

Two Chicago Bears players have visited with residents recovering from the tornado that tore through a tiny northern Illinois community this month.Click to Continue »

In nine years of vegetable gardening with her boyfriend, Danielle Aughton never knew the best time to plant Brussels sprouts.Click to Continue »

When a child's death cries out for answers, a Bloomington pathologist is part of the team of experts called on to provide an answer.Click to Continue »

Tina Wagner is back with her brush to make Nunda Township a more colorful place.Click to Continue »

Some people might look at the Richard Roytek home and simply see a door, windows and a chimney stretching up from the ground through the roof and beyond.Click to Continue »

Eight suburban Kansas City boys have been suspended from school because of nude pictures of female schoolmates found on their cellphones.Click to Continue »

A University of Missouri-Columbia photojournalism student has reshot a well-known series of photos from 1949 to capture changes at the school.Click to Continue »