Citizens of Champaign can now expect more transparency regarding the Unit 4 school district’s financial records and expenditures. Anthony Pomonis, a lifelong Champaign resident and current candidate for County Board in District 7 proposed a …
There have been numerous attempts to improve public education in the United States over the years. The No Child Left Behind Act has created required benchmarks for students through standardized testing with a focus on …
Starbucks released the full list of locations to be closed yesterday, and Store #10365, located at 2000 N. Neil St. at the Market Place Mall in Champaign, is on the list. The shift manager on …
Downtown Champaign’s oldest bar—as old as the end of Prohibition — is throwing itself a party, with bands, birthday presents and, of course, cheap beer. Three dollars gets you in to see Dottie and the …
For those of you downtown dwellers ever on the watch and diligently moving your car in the a.m. hours to escape the eye of parking enforcement, your time has come. The City of Champaign is …
Chris Knight, proprietor of one of Champaign’s most popular bars, The Blind Pig, purchased the Barfly yesterday. The cocktail lounge will, Knight says, be open for business under his ownership tonight. Barfly, a fairly typical …
When Council Member Michael LaDue walks around his Campustown neighborhood after a particularly successful football game things can get pretty rowdy on Green Street — more raucous, in fact, than the 2008 Unofficial St. Patrick’s …
John Currey, director of Champaign Central High School Jazz Ensemble, along with members of the group, collected a proclamation from Deputy Mayor Michael LaDue declaring April as Jazz Appreciation Month in the City of Champaign. …
After about two years of learning how to build a business, and a year of renovation and construction at 114 Walnut Street in downtown Champaign, Trisha Bates and her sister, Amanda, are almost ready to …
After Mayor Gerald Schweighart read the resolution providing funds to the reconstruction of three residential redevelopments on North Neil and West Church streets, Council Member Michael La Due took time to note that the incentive …
