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The twin cities of Urbana and Champaign supported a vibrant popular music scene between the 1960s and 2014, with such music venues as Chances R, Mabel’s, Nature’s Table, Trito’s Uptown,

(Springfield-jm) – Democrats in the Illinois Senate have advanced a measure that would prohibit Illinois companies from requiring employees to attend work-related meetings about religion or pol...

For more than three decades, Mark Rubels Pogo Studio served as a hub of music magic in downtown Champaign.

Some guitar heroes explode across the stage or erupt from recordings. Think Hendrix or Jimmy Page. Others, like Colin Linden, have a quieter brilliance. They play to support fellow musicians and their own songs with a perfection that extends beyond service into art, dancing a characterful line betwe