5. Two NIU athletes nab MAC honors:

Read about track and field’s Kelsey Hildreth here.

Read about gymnastics’ Amanda Stepp here.

4. Obama wants to bring broadband to more people, smaller communities.

3. Mexican mayor faces charges in kidnapping of 43 students.

2. Rauner seeks to undo Quinn’s last-minute changes.

1. NIU names Illinois Board of Higher Education’s Alan Phillips vice president of Administration & Finance.

Today’s weather: Chance of flurries with a high of 20 and a low of 11 degrees.