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When you want to make things difficult, this is the perfect team. In the whole country, no team could make a more complicated engine for performing a task that should be effortless, a concept created by the cartoonist Rube Goldberg.

CHAMPAIGN — When you want to make things difficult, this is the perfect team.

Today is Monday, April 22, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, Royal Stipes defeated C.D. Brownell 572 to 345 in the election for president of the Champaign school board. Voters also approved a bond issue to pay for an addition to Dr. Howard School.
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Odds are, we won't get another finish on Saturday like the one we saw at the 2018 Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon.

Odds are, we won't get another finish on Saturday like the one we saw at the 2018 Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon.
That's OK, we're still pleased as punch about what's ahead this weekend.

Catch up with the oldest runner at next weekend's marathon.

His golf scores and race times aren't getting any better, but that hasn't diminished Don Pratt's enthusiasm toward sports one bit.
"At my age, you have to be active," he said.

The fourth in a series, we take a glimpse at what's happening in Bismarck.

The $150 million gift from Larry and Beth Gies to the college had its roots in a dinner conversation.

The $150 million gift from Larry and Beth Gies to the University of Illinois College of Business had its roots in a dinner conversation.

Set to give commencement address, businessman says he's always over-prepared

CHAMPAIGN — After years of zealously guarding his online profile, Larry Gies is getting used to seeing his name in lights — or at least on billboards.
Like when he steps off a 7 a.m. train in Chicago and sees 15-foot letters spelling out "Gies College of Business" on a University of Illinois ad.

Today is Sunday, April 21, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, Royal Stipes and C.D. Brownell both took part in a lively campaign for president of the Champaign school board. The top issue of the campaign was whether to build an addition to Dr. Howard School.
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Business may not be booming in small community, yet it has top-notch schools, happy teachers and involved parents

BISMARCK — It's fourth hour at Bismarck-Henning-Rossville-Alvin High School, and students in one of the new Intro to Agriculture sections have just finished a quiz on swine breeds and terminology.
Earlier in the week, they studied cattle. Next up: sheep.

Photos from a tour of Sola Gratia Farm Tuesday, April 9, 2019, in Urbana.