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First Fridays is a repeating festival in Downtown Urbana. They always have cool activities going on like art installations, live music, fire dancers, bicycle demonstrations, food and more. If you’ve not been, check out some …

This past weekend I picked up my rain barrel from the City of Urbana. They sold them to confirmed locals for a very reasonable price. The sale has since ended but there is some information …

Rejoice, lunchers of Champaign-Urbana – Downtown Champaign’s Pekara Bakery has just revealed their lunch specials for every day of the week this summer. For more info, keep your eyes posted to Pekara’s Facebook page here, …

It looks like the American Health Care Act 2.0 is headed for a vote today in the House, and our own Rodney Davis has not been shy about supporting it. Despite the rain and cold, …

According to The News-Gazette, a new cultural center is headed to the University of Illinois campus quite soon. Next week at the U of I’s Board of Trustees meeting in Springfield, the final designs (rendered above) …

In case you hadn’t heard, massively popular and hugely important author Terry McMillan will be reading at the Champaign Public Library on Thursday evening. It’s a hot ticket, and free to the public, if you …

Garth Brooks sold out the State Farm Center four three nights in a row (four shows total). Here are four photos from my one trip to Garth to show you what it was like. 

This past weekend community member met and rallied to support legislation that addresses climate change. They marched out into the streets after listening to Carol Ammons speak on the issue. Here are the photos. 

Everybody loves brunch. One could go even a step further and say that everyone loves brunch in Downtown Champaign, and following the below pictures from Miga, I think it’s safe to say that they have …