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URBANA, Ill. (AP) — Fall enrollment at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign totals 52,331, surpassing by more than 1,000 the record set last year despite the mixture of in-person and online instruction resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. University officials say the rise in

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago plans to begin replacing toxic lead water pipes across the city after decades of hiding downplaying the potential health threat to the public. The Department of Water Management on Wednesday shared with the Chicago Tribune its plans to replace 750 of the roughly 400,000

CHICAGO (AP) — A ceremony at the Pullman National Monument marks another step in making a sprawling factory site on Chicago’s South Side a tourist attraction. Illinois and local officials gathered Monday to draw attention to the work being done at the site where Pullman passenger railroad

SPRINGFIELD – A group of wildland firefighters from Illinois have returned from Colorado after battling the largest in that state’s history.  The 139,000 acre Pine Gulch Fire used assistance from the 21-person crew made up of U.S. Forest Service, Shawnee Resource and Conservation

CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a former security guard at a suburban Chicago high school to pay $3 million in damages to the family of a former student who alleges that he sexually abused her dozens of times. The default judgment granted Tuesday against 35-year-old Michael Haywood

By JOHN O’CONNOR AP Political Writer SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The top Republican in the Illinois House filed a breach of public trust charge against Democratic Speaker Michael Madigan, the longest-serving legislative leader in U.S. history. The action Thursday came as a special committee