Article: Illinois broadcast news pioneer dies at 80.(News)

Byline: James Fuller Daily Herald Staff Writer

The first radio reporter to provide daily coverage from the Illinois Capitol Building died Monday.

Bill Miller, 80, died among family at his home in The Woodlands, Texas after a six-year battle against cancer.

Journalists throughout Illinois mourned Miller's death as the personal loss of a friend and the professional loss of a pioneer.

Miller's career spanned 44 years. He spent the first 25 years as a radio reporter, getting his first taste of the microphone in Gregory Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

That training carried him through a quarter century in ...

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