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Department of Corrections officials lay out closure, rebuild timeline to lawmakers
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Missouri State University announced Friday it's accepted an offer to join Conference USA starting in the fall 2025. That conference plays in the highest level of Division I football, the Football Bowl Subdivision. The Missouri Valley Football Conference is in the lower-tier Football Championship Subdivision.
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A Cook County Circuit Court jury this week ordered OSF HealthCare and other health providers to pay $41 million in a malpractice lawsuit.
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Project Oz has existed in Bloomington for just over half a century, and it’s the only social service organization in the county dedicated to helping youth and adolescents — ages 10 to 23 — facing a housing crisis.
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Poet Cathy Gilbert doesn't shy away from tough topics, but her most recent collection was as much a coping mechanism as an artistic expression. Her new book examines becoming a mother for the first time — to twins — as her own mother was dying.
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Dozens of members of a union representing tenured and tenure-track faculty at Illinois State University demonstrated at Friday's board of trustees meeting, showing up en masse and dressed in green to highlight members' priorities.
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Mark Ernst with the Illinois Department of Agriculture says a new rule requiring farmers to report interstate movement of dairy cattle has helped contain the spread of H5N1.
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The Bloomington Kiwanis' annual flower sale takes place each Mother's Day weekend, with proceeds supporting camp scholarships for kids.
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A federal judge has sentenced a Bloomington couple to prison for having and conspiring to sell an opioid drug called para-fluorofentanyl, a Schedule I analgesic.
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The Illinois Faith and Recovery Collaborative offers free trainings for faith groups to equip their members with a scientific lens with which to view substance abuse recovery and mental health.
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When it comes to helping youth experiencing housing insecurity and homelessness, schools can play a surprisingly vital role in providing stability and aid — if they’re aware there’s an issue in the first place. Oftentimes, they’re not.
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A publishing company whose politically slanted newspapers have been derided as “pink slime” is being sued by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul for illegally identifying birthdates and home addresses of “hundreds of thousands” of voters.