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A group of emotional public commenters chastised the Normal Town Council during its regular meeting Monday as well as during an outdoor rally preceding that meeting about the town’s controversial removal of artwork honoring Jelani Day, an ISU graduate student whose death police continue to investigate.
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Courtesy of the Day family(BLOOMINGTON, Ill.) The family of Jelani Day, an Illinois grad student and aspiring doctor whose body was found floating in the Illinois River five days ago, is desperately searching for answers. Day's body was found on Sept. 4 and was identified by the LaSalle County Coroner on Sept. 23 through forensic dental identification and DNA testing. "Jelani did not just disappear into thin air. Somebody knows something, somebody seen something and I need somebody to say something," Day's mother, Carmen Bolden Day, told "Good Morning America" on Wednesday. "I'm very upset because I can't even look at my son's body. His body has deteriorated to the point where I can't say a proper goodbye to him," she said. The 25 year-old was living in Bloomington, Illinois, and studying at Illinois State University and was reported missing by his family on Aug. 25 two days after they had last spoken with him, according t