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Gamma Phi Circus presents The Magic of Musicals, and the spring edition of Record Store Day includes a Coffeehound pop-up at Waiting Room Records in Uptown Normal.
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With thousands of hours in front of live audiences, the instrumental trio Inktrail settled on nine original songs for their debut titular album.
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Jeff Jurgens, a longtime employee of the city who's been deputy city manager just more than a year, is set to become city manager once Tim Gleason leaves early next month.
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Eric Bates died April 8 in a motorcycle accident in rural Mackinaw. He was 73. A state champion at U High and a college division national champion at Illinois State, Bates was a marvel on the mat.
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McLean County authorities said Thursday that they're investigating this week's discovery of a body in a ditch as a homicide. They also identified the victim was Ronald W. Thrasher Jr., 48, of Bloomington.
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The nonprofit For A Better Tomorrow will host its first STEAM Olympics in partnership with Illinois Wesleyan University.
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The Unit 5 school board already has plans to increase temporary classrooms and is keeping high school expansions in mind, but the study indicates re-balancing population at the lower levels may be worth looking into as well.
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Dietz retired as Illinois State University's president in 2021 after seven years in the role, and 10 years with the university overall. He was named a finalist for the interim presidency at St. Cloud State in March.
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The recent surge of international migrants arriving in Illinois has brought with it a host of new challenges for state and local officials. Those range from filling their most basic needs like emergency food, clothing and shelter, to more complex issues like lining them up with basic health care, financial assistance and other social services.
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Jeffrey Reinking was convicted in 2022 of illegally giving his son Travis Reinking an assault-style weapon he used in a 2018 shooting that left four dead at a Waffle House in Tennessee. A Tazwell County judge sentenced Reinking to 18 months in prison for delivery of a firearm to a person who had been treated for mental illness within five years.
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On Tuesday, county board members voted to table a resolution that would declare Woodford County as a non-sanctuary county for migrants in the country illegally.
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Shashi Salavath attended a rigorous pre-college research team with classmates from the Illinois Math and Science Academy. He worked on projects exploring the use of AI in deep sea submersibles and drone swarms.