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By Sean Powers/Illinois Public Media /The obesity epidemic in this country is running rampant, and it’s hitting Latinos especially hard. A program at the University of Illinois seeks to...
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By Dave Hinton/Rantoul Press/WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bernard Ramos is a free man again.
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Public school districts everywhere have seen dramatic increases in the number of low-income students as overall enrollment has decreased or remained the same.
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Over the past eight months, Urbana city officials, including the mayor and the city’s community development department, have worked with residents in the Lierman...
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