Students vote to keep Chief Illiniwek at Illinois
More than 9,100 students favored keeping Chief Illiniwek while about 4,000 voted against in an Internet referendum at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. About a third of the 38,000 students cast ballots.
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Nick Klitzing
Students For Chief Illiniwek
Bryanna French
Progressive Action Resource Coalition
Matt Diller
Diller
Nate Allen
Chief Illiniwek
Urbana-Champaign
Illinois
Board of Trustees
Galesburg Maytag plant to close shutting city’s largest employer
Maytag confirms the Galesburg plant will end production in mid November with side by side refrigerators stopping by Sept 20 and top mount lines by Nov 15. About 1,200 workers remain to be laid off, some stay through year end for shutdown cleanup.
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Galesburg
Maytag
Lynne Dragomier
Dragomier
Marty Settles
Mexico
United Airlines delays bankruptcy exit plans into summer
United Airlines told a federal bankruptcy court it will take longer than planned to emerge from Chapter 11, delaying beyond June 30 as key issues persist. It seeks a $1.6 billion federal loan guarantee and pension relief legislation, while a court ruling favored United in a retrenchment dispute over retiree health benefits. An examiner found no evidence of deceit to spur early retirements, but noted a $456 million budget gap prompted benefit cuts.
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Chicago
United Airlines
Federal Bankruptcy Court
Ross Silverman
United
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