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Donor Adds $1.5 Million For Ebert Center
URBANA, Ill. (AP) -- An anonymous donor this week added $1.5 million to the pot of money being collected to build a center for film studies at the University of Illinois in honor of movie critic and U of I graduate Roger Ebert.

Walt Harrington is interim dean of the university's College of Media. He says the new donation combined with $1 million from Ebert and his wife, Chaz Ebert, give the university half of the $5 million it says it needs.

The university will continue trying to raise money for the planned Roger Ebert Center for Film Studies.

Ebert is a 1964 graduate of the university and a native of Urbana. The longtime Chicago Sun-Times writer's annual Ebertfest film festival is this week at the university and other sites in Urbana-Champaign.

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