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Melinda spent a gorgeous evening on Saturday at Urbana’s Downtown Get Down. The event featured live music, an artist market, and games among a slew of other activies. Didn’t make it this Saturday? Worry not …

Literally, there are signs. If you drive down Walnut Street, you will notice that Farren’s has officially put their name on the awnings, and have added brand new signage to the former Radio Maria space. …

The City of Urbana shared the photo (taken the day after it opened) of the former Lincoln/Landmark Hotel opened on their Facebook page today, as well as this photo from the 40s. ICYMI, here’s the …

On Monday, University of Illinois students in Recreation, Sport, and Tourism started a two week trek across the Midwest and Northeast to “parks, historic sites, athletic venues, halls of fame, & more” as their department …

Honestly, I do not know who decides these national days of recognition. Some are ridiculous — May 22nd is National Vanilla Pudding Day, for example — but today’s National Rescue Dog Day is something I can get …

C-U didn’t experience much in the way of weather yesterday, but the skies just to the east of us were pretty active. Andrew Pritchard, our monthly weather columnist, founder of Chambana Weather, and atmospheric photographer …

The Land Connection Champaign Farmers’ Market launched its 5th year of setting up shop in downtown Champaign yesterday. Vendors will gather in the parking lot at Neil and Washington every Tuesday 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. …

In honor of this University of Illinois graduation weekend, here are some items from the University of Illinois Library’s Mapping History Project. The above photo is not the first commencement, it’s from 1915. But here …

This is kind of awesome.  We talk about public art quite a bit here at SP, but I love the idea of public science.    Photo from Orpheum Children’s Science Museum