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The News-Gazette is your source for news and advertising in East Central Illinois. Based in Champaign Illinois, the News-Gazette brings you the best local news and sports coverage in the

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Bob Asmussen's Polling Place | Apparently, AP voters not impressed by Michigan's controversial victory

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (283+ words) Michigan quarterback Bryce Underwood completed 12 of 22 passes for 170 yards Saturday against Western Michigan. He also ran for 47 yards. Illinois beat writer and AP Top 25 voter Bob Asmussen checks in with the first poll of the 2026 regular season: Illinois beat writer…...

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Capitol News Illinois | Judge weighing arguments to halt Illinois’ ‘medical aid in dying’ law

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (669+ words) The Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago. CHICAGO — Illinois is set to become the first Midwestern state to allow terminally ill adults to take life-ending medication prescribed by physicians when the law goes into effect late this week. But a federal…...

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Capitol News Illinois | Legislative Inspector General Michael McCuskey resigns amid criticism

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1244+ words) Legislative Inspector General Michael McCuskey speaks to Capitol News Illinois during an interview on June 6, 2023. Previously a federal judge who worked out of the U.S. Courthouse in Urbana, on Aug. 31, he offered his resignation from his current role effective Sept. 30. SPRINGFIELD…...

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Capitol News Illinois | Judge weighing arguments to halt Illinois’ ‘medical aid in dying’ law ahead of Saturday start

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (672+ words) The Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago. CHICAGO — Illinois is set to become the first Midwestern state to allow terminally ill adults to take life-ending medication prescribed by physicians when the law goes into effect late this week. But a federal…...

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Jim Dey | Punishing free speech usually proves costly for universities

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1306+ words) Adrien Pochel of Cree & Lakota tribe drums and sings outside Chicago’s Field Museum during a land acknowledgement ceremony in recognition of the fact that the museum sits on traditional Native land. It’s time once again to dive into another round…...

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Capitol News Illinois | Audit: DCFS made progress but still noncompliant with 2020 law

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (526+ words) The Department of Children and Family Services building in Springfield. Two-year-old Ta’Naja Barnes’ 2019 death was so horrific that legislators passed a law in her honor to ensure the Department of Children and Family Services would provide abused and neglected kids…...

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Editorial | Reluctant Pritzker should defy teachers unions, help kids

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (501+ words) If the governor is serious about wanting the best for K-12 students, he should ‘opt in.’ The deadline for states to opt into a federal tax-credit program supporting K-12 education scholarships is Jan. 1. Although he’s had months to decide whether Illinois…...

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Real Talk | Our people have moved leftward

1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (375+ words) As Black August Resistance Month 2026 ends, a multifront war for the political heart of Afro-America is roiling. This internecine war is about ideology. Both Black nationalist political scientist Robert C. Smith and Black social democratic historian Manning Marable contended that African…...

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Letter to the Editor | Trump is real communist

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (281+ words) news-gazette.com Trump is real communistIt’s been said that history repeats itself According to Mark Twain, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”So, which are we experiencing in the current…...

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Letter to the Editor | Renaming lake a real SHAME

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (42+ words) news-gazette.com Renaming lake a real SHAME When I was a kid, we learned the mnemonic HOMES to remember the names of the Great Lakes. Now I guess we have to go with SHAME....