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City staff noted that the proposed 0.25% home-rule increase will not be enough to fully cover their estimated shortfall, but this can be made up with one-time spending from the

Illinois’ Black business leaders say while they have made progress … they still need some protection.

Voters in Champaign and Danville re-elected their mayors Tuesday, but by widely different margins. Champaign Mayor Deborah Frank Feinen received 5,358 votes, or nearly 75 percent of the unofficial tally. In Danville, Rickey Williams Junior has been re-elected to serve a second full term as mayor. Williams defeated his challenger, Vermilion Housing Authority executive director Jackie Vinson, by just 59 votes, according to Tuesday night’s unofficial returns.,