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Habitat for Humanity of Champaign County, Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club and the Eastern Illinois Foodbank will be on the receiving end of over a million dollars in combined funding from the Yahoo Employee …

Yesterday, the State of Illinois finally got a budget, after two and a half years of stalemate (and higher education/social service hostage-taking by Governor Bruce Rauner). Today, the responses are pouring in; here’s how Champaign-Urbana …

From the press release: MCORE PROJECT WORK TO RESUME CHAMPAIGN – On July 6, the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) informed the Multimodal Corridor Enhancement Project (MCORE) partner agencies that the recent State of Illinois …

U of I Student Body President Raneem Shamseldin had some things to say about the United States on July 4th, stating “This country was explicitly built on genocide, slavery, pillage, and rape.” Here’s her original post …

Similar to chocolate and puppies, parks are a universal good. As such, July is National Recreation and Parks month to celebrate the existence of patches of grass and combine to make any city, including both …

For those of you with sweet teeth, we’ve got some good news for you – Red Bicycle Ice Cream, Urbana’s newest spot for sweet treats, is set to open up officially on July 6th. For …

As if you needed another reason to roll your eyes at the State of Illinois and their lack of a budget, IDOT has announced the halting of all “state-let” projects starting July 1st, the new …

Public art is one of the things that makes both of our communities have a little more flair, and while it may not be at the forefront of most of our thoughts, it does make …

From the press release: (Urbana)  Members of First Followers, a local community group that offers support and guidance to the formerly incarcerated, will host an upcoming panel discussion about the book Becoming Ms. Burton.  The …