Urbana is enacting initiatives to transform Philo Road, including grants and community programs aimed at revitalizing the ...
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 ...
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 ...
A 2016 gas leak into the drinking water supply north of Mahomet continues to be a hot topic, embroiled in regulatory action and lawsuits even five years after the leak. The first official report of a ...
The Clinton Power Station nuclear reactor, about 34 miles from Champaign, generates enough energy to provide heating and electricity for over 800,000 of Illinois’ almost 13 million homes. At the ...
Over the past five years, federal workplace safety officials inspected about 1,800 roofing contractors in Illinois. But a CU-CitizenAccess review found no state records that showed that 1,200 of those ...
Organic farmer Patsy Hopper, who lives five miles south of Urbana, has filed at least 11 complaints about pesticide drift with the Illinois Department of Agriculture in the last five years after ...
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 ...
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 ...
A lawsuit filed by the City of Champaign against the out-of-town owner of run-down apartment buildings remains unresolved heading into 2026. Champaign has been involved with an ongoing legal battle ...
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 ...
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 ...