Leak in monitoring well being addressed by company, regulators DECATUR – Agribusiness giant ADM violated federal regulations, a federal permit and the Safe Drinking Water Act earlier this year when a monitoring well at their carbon sequestration site in Decatur leaked liquified carbon dioxide into “unauthorized zones,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. …
Updated 6 p.m. Sept. 13, 2023 URBANA — As a building service worker at the University of Illinois, Melody Decker has cleaned up feces in shower stalls and vomit that just missed trash cans. Despite her own visceral reactions to bodily fluids, she loves her job. She said she has made lasting friendships with students…
URBANA — The University of Illinois published its 10-day enrollment numbers Wednesday. It’s a first look at how much of an impact the end of affirmative action has on diversity at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. “We tried to do a number of things in the wake of the Supreme Court decision to improve…
Trial continues in case of ex-AT&T Illinois president accused of bribing former speaker CHICAGO – The day before Thanksgiving in 2016, then-AT&T Illinois president Paul La Schiazza read some news that frustrated him. It seemed that energy giant Exelon, the parent company of Chicago-based electric utility Commonwealth Edison, was going to get a big…
NEWTON COUNTY, Ind. — The body of a slain sheriff’s deputy from Newton County, Indiana was escorted earlier this week from Urbana to Springfield and from Springfield to Brookston, Indiana Thursday. Corporal Brandon Schreiber was shot in the line of duty on September 1 while assisting Iroquois County Sheriff’s Department in Illinois. A police…
Friday, September 13, 2024 Today’s headlines: In today’s deep dive, we’ll learn how a state review committee has standardized testing and how teachers use test data to help students. 217 Today is produced by Stephanie Mosqueda. Reporting today contributed by Mawa Iqbal, Alex Degman and Peter Medlin.