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Urbana mayor proposes alternative on video gambling
URBANA – Mayor Laurel Prussing on Monday night presented a plan to find the “middle ground” in response to a statewide bill that mandates video gambling as a way to pay for part of the state's $31 billion capital bill.
The bill offered what Prussing called an “either-or” option, which allows municipalities to either ban video gambling or require that businesses with the gambling stations to buy new machines and tie into a statewide system.
“I thought that was too rigid,” Prussing said.
UI student turns in $2,000 she found in parking lot Friday night
A University of Illinois student turned in $2,000 in cash she found in a parking lot Friday night.
According to a UI police report, the woman was walking with two men in the southwest parking lot of the Business Instructional Facility building, 515 E. Gregory Dr., Champaign, at 10:20 p.m. Friday when she discovered a wad of $20 bills totaling $2,000.
The woman turned the money over to police officers.
Big Broadband vote likely to be delayed by consultant's illness
CHAMPAIGN — The Maryland consultant who audited the Big Broadband proposal will not attend this week’s Champaign city council meeting to field questions from council members, a city official said Monday.
Doug Dawson was ill on Monday and will not travel to Champaign for Tuesday night’s city council meeting, Information Technologies Director Fred Halenar said. His absence likely will delay a council vote on whether to accept federal grant money if those funds were awarded.
Found (and turned in to police): $2,000
A University of Illinois student turned in $2,000 in cash she found in a parking lot Friday night.
According to a UI police report, the woman was walking with two men in the southwest parking lot of the Business Instructional Facility building, 515 E. Gregory Dr., Champaign, at 10:20 p.m. Friday when she discovered a wad of $20 bills totaling $2,000.
The woman turned the money over to police officers.
Roundup of efforts to help Haiti
Here are some of the ways East Central Illinois residents are helping the people of Haiti.
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