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The I.D.E.A. Store‘s Hatch, their creative re-use arts festival, is happening soon: February 26th-March 14th. The schedule of events was just released, which you can check out below. Thursday, February 26 7:30 – 8:30 pm  Lecture: …

From the Facebook event: Join us for an afternoon discussion with Patrick Earl Hammie and Chris Kienke. Both artists are represented in the Painting Is Dead?! exhibition and are Illinois faculty members in the School …

JT Walker’s in Mahomet is doing a giveaway that you should definitely pay attention to: They’re giving away a $100 gift card to a lucky reader, and you can enter here. Remember when we ate …

From the press release: Champaign County EDC announces Elmore as New SBDC Director The Champaign County Economic Development Corporation is pleased to announce Don Elmore as the new Director of the Illinois Small Business Development …

U of I student Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu has a really great blog called A Real Rattlesnake Meets His Maker and last week decided to begin creating a blacklist of local businesses that support racist imagery. …

Ride sharing giant Uber has made its way into Champaign-Urbana. This is an extremely exciting development for this community as a hotbed for newer, more cutting-edge businesses begin to make C-U home. Uber #chambana rates. …

Back in January, I took the buffoon at the News-Gazoo to task about publishing the photos from the Champaign County jail for recent arrests. After all, these folks are innocent until proven guilty. What’s worse …

Thrillist has given love to Champaign-Urbana restaurants once again, this on a list entitled “The 19 Best Pizza Places in the Entire State of Illinois.” Among the 19 are Papa Del’s original Sicilian with pepperoni …

Laura Weisskopf Bleill, mom-in-chief,  gives a pretty great recap of what’s been happening with the Unit 4 high school referendum and gives her opinion for why Dodds Park would be a great fit. It’s worth …