URBANA – Decatur Public Schools has a new superintendent. On Tuesday night, the board of education appointed Dr. Rochelle Clark as District 61’s new leader. Clark started her career in 1992 as a special education teacher’s aide and worked her way up to assistant principal at three Decatur schools. She also served as assistant superintendent of…
The WILL Radio archives include hundreds of hours of recorded programs captured on acetate discs from the 1940s and 50s, including a 1957 reading at the University of Illinois by 20th century African-American poet Langston Hughes. Jameatris Rimkus, an archivist the University of Illinois Library, tracked down the mislabeled discs, rescuing them from obscurity.
Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 Today’s headlines: Governor J.B. Pritzker is fighting a Sangamon County judge’s decision late last week that found Illinois’ K-12 school mask mandate is an overstep of the governor’s executive authority. Danville School District 118 students are still required to wear masks when they return to their classrooms Tuesday. A clinic for…
Updated: February 8, 2022 As the state of Illinois increases resources at local health departments to provide mass vaccinations, we are providing locations in/around the Champaign-Urbana area of places to receive the COVID vaccines and testing. As of late December, Illinois is seeing its highest surge in COVID-19 cases during the entire pandemic. For people…