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21 Jul, 2020
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Kanye West files for president in Illinois
Just moments before a 5 p.m. Monday deadline, petitions were filed at the State Board of Elections for entertainer Kanye West as an independent candidate for president.
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District 186 school board president wants Ball-Chatham school board member censured

The president of the Springfield District 186 school board is asking that a member of the Ball-Chatham school board be censured over his support for Saturday's Million Unmasked March at the Illinois Capitol Building.

22 new COVID-19 cases in Sangamon County

Sangamon County officials Monday reported 22 new cases of COVID-19, with those infected ranging from a 1-year-old child to a woman in her 80s.

 
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UIS Perspectives: Working together for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

When it was written in 1776 "... that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," it was surely the most amazingly written expression in the Declaration of Independence.

Illinois teachers union: Most schools should not reopen this fall

The union that represents about half of the state's educators and school employees says most schools, colleges and universities should not reopen for in-person instruction this fall.

 
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Pritzker defends ICC chair

Gov.

COVID-19 raises back-to-school angst

Sara Roberson is adamant about not sending her daughter, a seventh grader, back to in-person learning at Jefferson Middle School.

Federal agents, local streets: A ‘red flag’ in Oregon

PORTLAND, Ore.

Wrangling over virus relief persists despite high stakes

MIAMI - The desperate race to corral the coronavirus pandemic took on even greater urgency Monday as a burgeoning economic crisis collided with political turmoil.

UK coronavirus vaccine prompts immune response in early test

LONDON - Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot.