Urbana is enacting initiatives to transform Philo Road, including grants and community programs aimed at revitalizing the ...

Longtime Champaign County residents Ruth Yontz and Antonia Herbstreit had never met before organizing what would become an AI data center resistance group. Yontz, a former faculty member at the ...

Mike Fredendall’s apartment he leased during his senior year didn’t have carpet. But when he moved out, he was charged $250 for a “Carpet Cleaning Fee,” which was deducted from his $595 security ...

Members of a community organization named “Resist AI Data Centers Champaign County” disclosed the names of the “mysterious” data centers that approached the county for potential data center ...

The University of Illinois Foundation’s endowment returned 3.3% in fiscal year 2025, well below the foundation’s benchmark of 13.2% and significantly lower than the 11.1% return earned by the ...

Under municipal code, ambulance services in Champaign and Urbana can be fined by the fire departments for not meeting response time standards. Yet despite frequent failures to meet standards for ...

Parking violators and other vehicle owners have paid an additional $340,000 in administrative towing fees to the City of Champaign over the last four years, according a review of city records by ...

In just one year, state and federal fines against the four nursing homes in Champaign County nearly tripled from $117,401 to $334,015, according to Medicare and the Illinois Department of Public ...

At least 128 underage University of Illinois students were so inebriated that their friends had to call 911 for emergency medical attention last fall. But those students avoided being ticketed or ...

The City of Champaign is starting a new street outreach program with the help of a nonprofit private firm specializing in violence prevention. The city approved a $450,000 one-year contract with ...

Residents at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park, a community with many Spanish-speaking residents, have been meeting with Champaign police over concerns about immigration enforcement. Lieutenant Katherine ...

More restaurants in Champaign and Urbana received a red placard and were closed during a routine inspection last year compared with 2024. At least 13 restaurants in the two cities, including Popeye’s, ...