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Illinois approves Equal Rights Amendment, 36 years after deadline

Illinois approves Equal Rights Amendment, 36 years after deadline

May 30, 2018
Sen. Dick Durbin answers a question Friday, April 21, 2017, during a town hall meeting in the university's Lesar Law Building. About 140 people came to hear the senator discuss national, regional and state issues. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Sen. Durbin holds town hall at Lesar Law Building

April 21, 2017
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University’s credit rating drops to junk

April 20, 2017
Joshua Thomas, 5, plays with bubbles Saturday, April 15, 2017, before the start of a Color Fun Run/Walk 5K around campus. Joshua's mother, Michelle Thomas, a teacher at Carbondale Community High School, said he was diagnosed with autism at 18 months old. The run was organized by the southern Illinois chapter of the Autism Society of America as a way to raise donations for autism research and awareness. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Gallery: Color Fun Run/Walk 5K

April 15, 2017
Amina Butt, of Carbondale, shows a series of white flags with sayings on them to her son, Yusef, on April 13, 2017, at Carbondale’s Gaia House. About 25 community members gathered at the Gaia House for a vigil as a sign of solidarity with Syria amid the country’s civil war. Butt is a member of the Carbondale Muslim Center and her father is president of the city’s Interfaith Council, a collaborative group of local religious leaders. Butt said she wanted to bring her children to the vigil to teach them about the world and help them understand the ongoing conflict in Syria. “It puts their blessed life in perspective for them,” she said. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Photo of the Day: White flags for Syria

April 15, 2017
Senior Polina Dozortseva reacts to scoring a point Sunday, April 9, 2017, during her match against Bradley junior Aimee Manfredo at the University Courts. Dozortseva lost her match, but the Salukis beat the Braves 4-3. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Gallery: Saluki women’s tennis defeats Illinois State and Bradley

April 9, 2017
SIU President Randy Dunn speaks to interim Chancellor Brad Colwell on Thursday, April 6, 2017, during a recess of the SIU Board of Trustees meeting in the Student Center ballrooms. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Trustees delay declaration of financial emergency, SIUE loan

April 6, 2017
Illinois Sen. Paul Schimpf, R-Waterloo, speaks with district resident and retired SIU professor Steven Kraft on Saturday, April 1, 2017, after a town hall meeting at Carbondale Township Hall. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

State senators address concerns of budget impasse at Carbondale town hall

April 1, 2017
Amy Preston interacts with Izzy, a pit bull mix puppy, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017, at St. Francis CARE Animal Shelter in Murphysboro. Preston began working for the shelter as an event coordinator in January 2016. Izzy was adopted by a new family that day. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

At Murphysboro no-kill shelter, ‘They all come in with hard stories’

March 31, 2017
Barry Banks, a graduate student in curriculum and instruction, smokes medical marijuana from a glass pipe Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015, at his home. Banks receives the prescription for diabetic neuropathy and is currently participating in a statewide pilot program. Before he received medical marijuana, Banks was prescribed opiates that he believes has harsher side effects.

Poll finds most Illinois voters favor marijuana decriminalization, legalization

March 28, 2017
Tim Beaty with his son Jacob. (Provided photo by Jessica Beaty)

Man pleads guilty to gun charge related to Easter Sunday killing

March 27, 2017
(Photo provided by Carbondale police)

Police arrest Carbondale man for assaulting officer

March 27, 2017
Gamecock junior catcher Hayden White high-fives teammates while he returns to the bullpen Saturday, March 25, 2017, after scoring a run against the Salukis. The Salukis beat the Gamecocks 5-4 during the second of a three-game series at Itchy Jones Stadium. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Gallery: SIU ties series at 1-1 with win over Jacksonville State

March 25, 2017
Protesters gathered at the office of Republican Rep. Mike Bost on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, to demand he support the Affordable Care Act. Bost twice voted to repeal the act while former President Barack Obama was in office and has said he supports an alternative approach to providing health care for Americans. (Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Protesters demand Rep. Bost defend Affordable Care Act

February 22, 2017
Photo of the Day: Melting iron

Photo of the Day: Melting iron

February 12, 2017
Skip Starkey, Joe Roach, Eddie Gaines, Ashton Brewer, and Wayne Summers race radio controlled cars Saturday, Feb. 04, 2017 at the Alpha RC Raceways in Carbondale. The track is home to a group of radio-controlled car enthusiasts who meet on weekends to practice and race against one another competitively inside a large gymnasium owned by fellow racer Andy Wallace. The gymnasium houses two tracks for the sport — one off-road and one on-road — for different classes of cars. The off-road track is constructed mainly from plastic piping, wood and carpet. Wallace, the owner of the building, said the space is also used for community events. While competitive, Wallace said, the races essentially amount to

Photo of the Day: Grown boys, toy cars

February 5, 2017
Sean O'Brien, of Elmwood Park, speaks on the phone while dressed as a polar bear Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, on West Cherry Street in Carbondale. The

Polar Bear sees fewer citations, injuries in 2017

January 31, 2017
Jakob Guetersloh writes

Party bus to give $1 rides during Polar Bear

January 27, 2017
McDonald’s remains closed Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in the SIU Student Center. (Branda Mitchell | @branda_mitchell)

McDonald’s in SIU Student Center closed for business

January 13, 2017
The Carbondale Fire Department monitors a fallen tree limb that is smoldering on a stretch of power lines at West Main Street, just north of West Striegel Road, in Carbondale. (Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko)

Power outages reported across Carbondale during ice storm

January 13, 2017
(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

2 men arrested for Carbondale gas station robbery

January 12, 2017
Harry Treece, of Carbondale, looks through a telescope Monday during the Transit of Mercury Public Astronomy Observation on the roof of Neckers Building. Treece, who previously worked in information technology at SIU, said he works closely with the physics department and the Astronomical Association of Southern Illinois to put on astronomy observations every month.

Carbondale city council discusses accommodations, booze control, in preparations for solar eclipse event

January 11, 2017
(DailyEgyptian.com file photo)

University officials: Story about SIUC closure is ‘fake news’

January 9, 2017
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SIU officials reject ‘sanctuary campus’ resolution

January 6, 2017
A firefighter works to battle a residential structure fire in the 400 block of East James and Thelma Walker Avenue on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2017, in Carbondale. There were no injuries, but the home is considered a total loss, Assistant Fire Chief Steve McBride said. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. (Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko)

Fire destroys home near Attucks Park Wednesday evening

January 5, 2017
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is thanked for his visit by SIU President Randy Dunn after delivering his final public lecture while in office Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, at the Student Center. (Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko)

UN secretary-general speaks of climate change, Syrian conflict during campus visit

December 21, 2016
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Faculty union signs off on two-year contract with university

December 16, 2016
SIU coach Barry Hinson reacts during the Salukis’ 74-70 win over Texas Southern on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016, at SIU Arena. (Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto)

Barry Hinson’s contract to last through 2020

December 13, 2016
(Photo provided by Joe Hein)

Housemates remember SIU student killed in fire as hardworking, artistic

November 29, 2016
Professor of philosophy Randall Auxier poses for a portrait Monday, Nov. 21, 2016, in his Murphysboro home prior to its opening ceremony as the American Institute for Philosophical and Cultural Thought. The institute, which houses an estimated 35,000 books and scholarly articles, was established as a research site for humanities students in response to the closure of SIU's Center for Dewey Studies.

SIU philosophy professor opens research library in his home

November 23, 2016
(Bill Lukitsch | @lukitsbill)

Photo of the Day: Lamenting Trump’s win

November 10, 2016
Jackson County emergency personnel transport a body discovered Aug. 30 from the Piles Fork Creek area along East Main Street. (Luke Nozicka | @lukenozicka)

Court records indicate Mount Vernon homicide victim was bludgeoned, strangled to death

November 1, 2016
Jackson County emergency personnel transport a body discovered Aug. 30 from the Piles Fork Creek area along East Main Street. (Luke Nozicka | @lukenozicka)

Police: Carbondale woman charged with murder in burned body case

October 31, 2016
Ahminya A. Overall. (Provided by Carbondale police)

Carbondale woman arrested in Sunday night stabbing

October 31, 2016
The victim of a stabbing is loaded into an ambulance Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016, in the 600 block of North Michael Street in Carbondale. (Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko)

Police: Man stabbed in front yard of home in Northwest Carbondale

October 30, 2016
(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Murphysboro shooting victim dies in hospital

October 26, 2016
(Murphysboro Police Department)

Police: Murphysboro man wanted for shooting 2

October 25, 2016
Justice Webb and Alyssa Walker

Two teens charged with recruiting, promoting juvenile prostitution

October 20, 2016
Robert J. Dennis. (Carbondale police)

Family of Carbondale man in disbelief over charges connected to burned body

October 18, 2016
SIU President Randy Dunn presents his State of the System address Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, at the Student Center in Carbondale. (Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko)

SIU president describes changing ‘covenant’ between Illinois, public universities

October 18, 2016
Officer Zach Street, a crash reconstructionist for the Carbondale Police Department, takes a picture of a shoe after a pedestrian was hit by a car Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016, in the 600 block of South Wall Street in Carbondale. (Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE)

Police: Pedestrian seriously injured after hit by drunken driver

October 15, 2016
Jackson County emergency personnel transport a body discovered Aug. 30 from the Piles Fork Creek area along East Main Street. (Luke Nozicka | @lukenozicka)

Second suspect charged in connection to burned body found in August

October 14, 2016
Photo of the Day: A day of living history

Photo of the Day: A day of living history

October 13, 2016
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SIU to pay MAP grants through spring semester

October 10, 2016
Kevin Wheetley operates a crane Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016, to demolish apartments adjoining a closed business Jeffrey Laundromat; 311 W. Main St. in Carbondale.

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October 10, 2016
(Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

SIU student held on $150,000 bond for possession of child pornography, police say

October 4, 2016
SIUC interim Chancellor Brad Colwell delivers his State of the University address Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016, in the Student Center Ballrooms. (Autumn Suyko | @AutumnSuyko_DE)

SIUC chancellor outlines budget, enrollment concerns

September 21, 2016
SIU student Al Charles, a senior studying marketing and television production who was shot July 16 in Carbondale, ties his shoes in his hospital bed Monday before getting released from Memorial Hospital of Carbondale after a recent surgery. Charles, 25, of Chicago, is at least the second SIU student to suffer a gunshot wound this calendar year. (Luke Nozicka | @lukenozicka)

Second SIU student shot in 2016 feels ‘blessed’ to be alive

September 16, 2016
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SIU enrollment at lowest point since 1965, data shows

September 7, 2016
Carbondale Police Chief Jeff Grubbs speaks to reporters Aug. 1. (Isabel Miller for DailyEgyptian.com)

Carbondale city council, community members discuss fining landlords for ‘chronic nuisance’ homes

August 31, 2016
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