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January 21 – 2024 Joliet shootings: A man commits a spree shooting in three locations in Illinois killing eight people and injuring one other before committing suicide a day later after he was confronted by police. [1] February 27 – A tornado hits Palatine, and Inverness. [2] March 19 –
Misinformation about the shooting spread on social media, including false claims that the shooter is transgender [99] [100] and that the shooting was a false flag operation. [101] The websites The Daily Wire and Disclose.tv posted tweets emphasizing the shooter's clothing, which subsequently resulted in transphobic narratives spreading online.
The four shooting victims, all of whom were sleeping at the time of the attack, were seated separately. Three of the victims were located in one train car while another was seated in an adjoining car. The victims are not believed to have any connection to the shooter and appear to have been attacked at random. [2]
Springfield Police released body cam footage Thursday from the Sept. 30 shooting of a teenager at the Sangamon County Juvenile Detention Center on South Dirksen Parkway.. The six-and-a-half-minute ...
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Roughly 47,300 people had filled Alumni Stadium, which has an official capacity of 10,000, for the university’s homecoming football game against Miles College hours before the deadly shooting.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Urbana Champaign: 1867 56,916 Research University Part of the University of Illinois system: Northeastern Illinois University: Chicago: 1867 5,756 Master's Northern Illinois University: DeKalb: 1895 15,649 Research University Southern Illinois University Carbondale: Carbondale: 1869 11,107 Research ...
The Urbana-Champaign campus was founded in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University. It was one of the 37 public land-grant institutions created shortly after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. [8] The university changed its name to University of Illinois in 1885, and then again to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982.