On that Thursday afternoon, Bill Cassidy, a communications professor, sat in his office on the first floor of Reavis ... hall shooting at Cole Hall, situated in the heart of the NIU campus.

LISTEN: Newsradio 780's Bernie Tafoya reports NIU spokesman Joe King says the building badly needed remodeling since the old lecture hall "was essentially untouched" since it was built in the 1960s.

SPRINGFIELD -- The state is finally coming up with $8 million for the renovation of Cole Hall at Northern Illinois University, the site of one of the deadliest school shootings in American history.