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It looks like Cracked’s new brick-and-mortar location on Green Street is taking shape, at least, from the outside. Per their Instagram account:   There is a new Chief in town… #crackedongreen A post shared by …

The City of Champaign has announced the dates that they will be picking up spring yard waste as you start to hollow out from the (relatively tame) winter. For information on when they will be …

“I am from Poland originally but I’ve been here in the states since the 1980’s. My family came here to escape the communism in Poland. To get here we crossed borders, illegally. One time we …

There are plenty of breakfast options in Champaign-Urbana, but if you’re looking for an alternative to elaborate brunches and the Original House of Pancakes, look no further than Urbana’s own Strawberry Fields, which serves breakfast …

I married into a (mostly) Italian-American family who live in Chicago. There’s a deli on Harlem, close to Higgins, called Nottoli, and more than 50% of my visits to the in-laws involve going to said …

I don’t know what I expected here, but the University of Illinois Republicans have just unleashed a new (and confusing) logo, which mixes the Republican Party’s elephant mascot with a headdress. Yeah, it’s that headdress.  The caption …

Thanks to J. Matthis Helmick for posting this photo of Nitaya Thai‘s mural being scraped off, and subsequently, the brick wall being repainted.   A post shared by J Matthis Helmick (@jmatthishelmick) on Feb 19, …

Many constituents here in Champaign-Urbana have been mad lately, and they’re mad because our congressman, Rodney Davis, has consistently ignored calls to converse with him from constituents who are concerned by a variety of issues, …

Meet Erin and Atticus. They are C-U transplants from Tucson, Arizona. They moved here when Erin was accepted to the U of I graduate program in the Astronomy department. “Where I grew up in Arizona …