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  • Ex-Adams Co. drug court head faces drug charges

    http://bit.ly/185H0FN ) reports 59-year-old John Grotts of Ursa made his first court appearance Wednesday on the federal charges that replace two state methamphetamine-related ...

  • Substitute teacher admits making threatening call

    WAUKEGAN, Ill. (AP) -- A substitute teacher accused of making a threatening telephone call to a school board member during a teachers' strike has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly ...

  • Quinn Expected to Sign New Sex Education Bill

    With what seems to have been very little controversy over such a heated topic, the Illinois Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would change the way Illinois public schools teach sex ...

  • Brian Urlacher No athlete since Michael Jordan symbolized Chicago more

    Chicago middle linebacker Brian Urlacher watches from the sideline during the second half of their Oct. 7 game against the Jacksonville Jaguars in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File) CHICAGO -- Whenever Brian Urlacher does something to confirm he hates attention as much as he loves football -- grunt through a news conference, breeze by adoring fans, retire via Twitter -- my ...

  • 49 Chicago schools to close

    The Chicago Board of Education has voted to shut 49 elementary schools and transfer 27,000 students to new classrooms, officials said. Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett gave four other schools, which were scheduled for closing, a last-minute reprieve. Wednesday's vote came after months of arguments over ...


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Movie Review

Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy

"Midnight Cowboy" is many things: an astute character study, a buddy picture, a human comedy, a stark drama, and an honest and straightforward depiction of the seedy world of male prostitution in New York. What is most amazing about the film is its refusal to age. It won the Best Picture Oscar in 1969, but viewing it twenty-five years later seems to have done nothing to undermine its impact. It is ... ...

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  • UI senate leaders Keep Chief in the past

    Tweet Widget URBANA -- Academic senate leaders at the University of Illinois have unanimously reaffirmed their position on the former symbol of the campus: Keep Chief Illiniwek in the past. The resolution -- drawn up in response to a recent proposal by former Chief Illiniwek portrayers to bring back a modified, non-dancing version of the Chief -- reinforces previous statements by the senate ...

  • 2011 FOIA for Champaign councils text messages emails during meetings

    July 15, 2011 Attn: Marilyn Banks City of Champaign 102 N. Neil St. Champaign, IL 61820 Ms. Banks: This is a request for information under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, 5 ILCS 140. I am seeking the following records: All electronic communications, including cellphone text messages, sent and received by members of the city council and the mayor during city council meetings and ...

  • UI-Chicago insurance may cover gender reassignment

    Tweet Widget CHICAGO -- The University of Illinois at Chicago is poised to join a growing number of colleges and universities that cover sex reassignment surgery as part of student health insurance plans. At a meeting next week, the UI Board of Trustees will consider a recommendation to approve health insurance rates for UIC students. For the first time ever, the plan as proposed includes ...

  • Court weighs requiring council to release texts

    Tweet Widget News-Gazette seeks records to see if officials are talking covertly during meetings SPRINGFIELD -- A legal dispute between the city of Champaign and The News-Gazette over whether text messages and emails sent and received by city council members during council meetings are subject to the state's Freedom of Information Act moved to the state appellate court Wednesday. And that ...

  • UI grad on cross-country wheelchair push meets 10-year-old in C-U

    Cameron Poole,10, Rockford, watches as University of Illinois grad Ryan Chalmers, second from left, who trains with the UI wheelchair athletes, comes down Oak street in Champaign Wednesday afternoon on his Push Across America ride. He's pushing his wheelchair from Los Angeles to New York and stopped in C-U on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Poole, who has been following Chalmers' trip on the ...

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