Back in June, Champaign-Urbana won Midwest Living’s “Greatest Midwest Food Town” competition, and now Visit Champaign County is spearheading the celebration. Here’s the Facebook event, and the info from it below: Remember when Champaign-Urbana was nominated as …
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Urbana Alderman Aaron Ammons announces run for County Clerk
From the press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Monday, September 4, 2017 Contact: Michelle Jett | 217-766-9677 | michellejett1@gmail.com Alderman Aaron Ammons To Run For County Clerk Vows to focus on equal access to …
Trevor Noah coming to State Farm Center October 27th
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, will be coming to State Farm Center on October 27th, tickets are on sale next Friday, September 8th at 10 a.m. CST. Thanks for the tip, Visit Champaign County: …
Tickets to Allerton Park’s annual Music Barn Festival now available
From the press release: Tickets available for annual Music Barn Festival Monticello – Allerton Park & Retreat Center and the University of Illinois’ School of Music have announced performance details for their annual Music Barn Festival, …
Clinton Lake Sailing Association traveled to Houston to help victims of Harvey
The folks involved with Clinton Lake Sailing Association have taken it upon themselves to make the trip down to Houston to help out victims of the horrendous Hurricane Harvey. You can see their updates via …
The Himalayan Chimney hilariously goes viral on Reddit
“I’ll take “Restaurant names that sound like sex acts” for $400, Alex.” At the time of my post, there are nearly 33K upvotes, and nearly 1,000 comments on “the front page of the internet”, Reddit. …
i3 Broadband celebrated their Grand Opening today
In case you’re wondering about a new player in town when it comes to your internet/fiber needs — i3 Broadband celebrated their Grand Opening today in Champaign. It was announced earlier this year that i3 …
This Craigslist “human” will give you $20 to protest the “War Chant” banning this Saturday
I can’t make this shit up. I use the term “human” here loosely because only people that have lost touch with reality do things like this. Here’s someone who is offering up cold hard cash …
Oh shit, the first armadillo of Champaign County has been spotted
This is news, y’all — armadillos are coming to Champaign County. Not in herds, yet — wait, do armadillos travel in herds? — but the first one has been spotted in Champaign County. This is …
buzz Magazine will return to print form twice a week via Daily Illini
The Daily Illini announced back in January 2016 that they would be reducing the frequency of print for the newspaper, and with that, the elimination of the print version of buzz Magazine, it’s sister publication. Just this …