Mikiya Thomas and Sharon Irish hold up a ceremonial $1 million check at the Champaign-Urbana Reparations Coalition meeting on Oct. 15, 2026. A large part of the money, which comes from an anonymous ...

SEIU Local 73 members rally in Decatur in September 2023 during previous contract negotiations. Photo: Emily Hays/IPM News DECATUR— Decatur Public Schools offered custodians a raise of 60 cents per ...

Mika Raviv, right, leads data center protesters towards Alma Mater on Friday, Sept. 25. Raviv is action coordinator for the Students for Environmental Concerns. Photo: Olivia Taylor/Illinois Student ...

Champaign County Board member John Farney speaks during the board’s meeting in Urbana on Oct. 13., 2026. The board unanimously passed a resolution prohibiting tax abatements for hyperscale data center ...

At least ten Illinois county jails that weren’t reporting their use of restraint chairs to a state monitoring unit began doing so after an Illinois Answers Project investigation revealed jails were ...

URBANA – About 600 people in Champaign County have received ballots by mail with errors printed on them. Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons said in an announcement Monday, a vendor his office uses ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — If Jeremiah Smith gets invited to New York as a Heisman Trophy finalist in December, the Ohio State wide receiver can point to Saturday’s performance against Illinois as a big reason ...

An Illinois Answers Project analysis revealed that 63 people who died in jails were missing from state data on in-custody fatalities. Now the state is auditing its records. On a Sunday morning in ...

A mountain lion is on the move through southwestern Illinois, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, which confirmed multiple sightings. The University of Illinois extension warns ...

Parkland College in Champaign along with Lake Land College in Mattoon will be receiving grants to launch Manufacturing Training Academies. Parkland College in Champaign and Lake Land College in ...

In an evening game on September 3, 2026, the Fighting Illini football team defeated the University of Alabama Birmingham Blazers. The entire stadium was lit by a large, bright video scoreboard.

Now until November, Illinois Public Media News, the League of Women Voters of Champaign County and the NAACP of Champaign County are conducting candidate forums or interviews.