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VOL. 99 ISSUE 84
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Furthering the arts
Illinois lottery winners have to wait for payout due to budget impasse winners since the current fiscal year began July 1. Including Chasteen, those winners represent millions of dollars in prizes. “The lottery is a state agency like many others, and we’re obviously affected by the budget situation,” Illinois Lottery spokesman Steve Rossi said. “Since the legal authority is not there for the comptroller to disburse payments, those payments are delayed.” While Rossi said winners will eventually receive their money once a budget is in place, the promise is cold comfort for Rick. “You know what’s funny? If we owed the state money, they’d come take it and they don’t care whether we have a roof over our head,” Rick said. “Our budget wouldn’t be a factor. You can’t say [to the state], ‘Can you wait until I get my budget under control?’ Rick, 48, and Chasteen, 56, were expecting the money to come this week after he turned in his winning ticket July 20 to the lottery claim center in Rockford. Instead, they got a phone call this week from lottery officials saying the payment would be delayed because of the budget impasse. “I was kind of in shock,” Chasteen said. “I called them back the next day [and] said, ‘Why am I not getting my money?’ ... I think it’s all wrong they’re doing it this way. They should pay the money we’re owed.”
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After years of struggling financially, Susan Rick thought things were looking up when her boyfriend won $250,000 from the Illinois Lottery last month. She could stop working seven days a week, maybe fix up the house and take a trip to Minnesota to visit her daughter. But because Illinois lawmakers have not passed a budget, she and her boyfriend, Danny Chasteen, got an IOU from the lottery instead. “For the first time, we were finally gonna get a break,” said Rick, who lives in Oglesby. “And now the Illinois Lottery has kind of messed everything up.” Under state law, the state comptroller must cut the checks for lottery winnings of more than $25,000. Lottery officials said that because lawmakers have yet to pass a budget, the comptroller’s office does not have legal authority to release the funds. Prizes of $25,000 or less will still be paid at lottery claim centers across the state, and people who win $600 or less can cash in their ticket where they bought it. But the bigger winners? Out of luck, for now. While lottery officials could not immediately say how many winners’ payments were delayed or provide the total amount of those payoffs, the agency’s website lists multiple press releases for
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Jacob Wiegand | @TJacobWiegand_DE Alexis Kimbrell, a senior from Albion studying Art, works on a bowl while promoting the Craft Shop outside of the Student Center on Monday. The Craft Shop offers SIU and the community access to a range of art-related activities including painting, ceramics, sewing and more. The Craft Shop is located near the south entrance of the Student Center on the lover level next to the Big Muddy Room.
Contagious outbreak hits University of Illinois SAMMIE LISBERG | @sblisberg_DE
Since last year, more than 100 cases of mumps have been reported at the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign. This includes nearly 50 previous cases in 2014 and 68 reported cases since Jan. 1. Dr. Ted Grace, director of SIU Student Health Services, said mumps is spread just like any other virus. It starts with symptoms similar to an
upper respiratory disease such as a low grade fever and sneezing. Symptoms of mumps also include the blockage of salivary glands and pain in the jaw. “Once you have been exposed, it takes somewhere between two to three weeks to fully develop the disease, and only a few days to become contagious,” Grace said. “People can be infectious before they show symptoms and not know it. From there they can affect people
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around them.” Students at Illinois universities are required to have childhood vaccinations to be eligible to enroll in classes. Beginning as early as two months old, the state requires certain vaccines before children enter any child care programs or schooling, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Please see MUMPS | 2
27 Citations issued by Carbondale Police
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for Underage Possesion or Consumption of Alcohol
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for Public Possesion of Alcohol
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for Resisting a Peace Officer
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for Obstruction of Identification
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for Public Urination