Staff writer Lyndsay Jones sat down with Jaime Roundtree, who has worked in the Champaign school district since 2005, for a finish-this-sentence-style interview.
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Coaches who were hired at the same time as Lovie Smith - Justin Fuente at Virginia Tech, Matt Campbell at Iowa State, Dino Babers at Syracuse, Bronco Mendenhall at Virginia, Kirby Smart at Georgia and Will Muschamp at South Carolina - have all been hits at their new schools.
Illini are heavily involved with 2020 prospects Addison Patterson, Keon Ambrose-Hylton and Karim Mané in addition to 2021 recruit Charles Bediako.
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The Illinois men’s basketball team is Italy bound in less than two weeks. The Illini will split their 10-day trip among three different Italian cities, arriving in Milan the morning of Aug. 5 before traveling to Florence and Rome.
Julie Blixen, a 20-year educator who has spent the last decade as an assistant principal at Dr. Howard and South Side elementary schools, will start her new role Wednesday.
But Mayor Rickey Williams Jr. said he didn’t realize how many of the current bars and other businesses the proposed changes would affect until he was contacted by some of their owners.
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An Urbana man who had been sexually abused as a child and did the same to others has been sentenced to 13½ years in prison for receiving child pornography.
Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said Kayla L. Kelley, 25, was pronounced dead at Carle Foundation Hospital at 8:56 a.m.
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