Illinoisan here. The University of Illinois at Chicago is closing their Urbana campus. I believe this past year was their last entering class. Now, students who don't go to Chicago will either spend their four years in Peoria or Rockford (instead of one year in Urbana, three years in Peoria/Rockford). However, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is opening their own medical school separate from UIC called Carle Illinois College of Medicine, which has a focus on engineering applications and will have an extremely small class size to begin with. I'm excited to see how that turns out, but it's somewhat of a shame because UIC-Urbana had a really cool MD/Ph.D program.
Bruce Rauner has been nothing but openly hostile towards anything resembling public education in the state of Illinois, and nothing would make me happier than to see him go down in flames in 2018.