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Eagles survive late rally to top Flyers, 64-59 USI Basketball (Source: WFIE) By Bethany Miller | January 21, 2021 at 10:02 PM CST - Updated January 21 at 10:02 PM
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. (WFIE) -University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball survived a late Lewis University run to earn a 64-59 Great Lakes Valley Conference road win over the host Flyers Thursday evening at Neil Carey Arena.
The No. 14 Screaming Eagles (7-1, 7-1 GLVC) led 59-48 with less than five minutes to play, but a 9-0 Lewis run that took up just over a minute put USI’s lead in jeopardy with less three minutes to play.
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The University of Illinois Board of Trustees Thursday voted to freeze tuition for incoming in-state freshmen and non-resident undergraduates for the 2021-22 academic year.
Trustees also approved modest increases in the cost of room and board: 2% at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2.6% at the University of Illinois Chicago and 1.4% at the University of Illinois Springfield. Small increases in fees, set in consultation with students, were approved for Urbana-Champaign and Chicago.
Trustees met virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U of I System has now frozen tuition rates for in-state undergraduate students in six of the past seven years, part of an ongoing commitment to containing costs for students and their families, system President Tim Killeen said. Tuition rates for in-state undergraduate students were frozen from 2015-19. During the 2020-21 academic year, system leadership decided because of the pandemic to cover the costs of a 1.8 per
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Nika Schoonover, Politics Editor|January 18, 2021
Illinois State Rep. Michael Madigan, D-Chicago, casts his vote for Illinois State Rep. Emanuel “Chris” Welch, D-Hillside, to be Illinois Speaker of the House as lawmakers cast their votes for the 102nd General Assembly for the Illinois House of Representatives at the Bank of Springfield Center, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, in Springfield, Ill. (Justin L. Fowler/The State Journal-Register via AP)
Illinois Democrats ousted former Speaker Michael Madigan after his nearly four decades in office when Emmanuel “Chris” Welch was elected the state’s first Black speaker of the House. Welch is tasked with bringing the House into a “new era” despite questions of his past including several harassment allegations.