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Parkland Entrepreneurial Network (PEN) will host the third Pitch Showcase for student entrepreneurs. Startup experts and local funders will award $8,500 to students, and one student will win the title of Parkland Student Entrepreneur of …

The market staple Blue Moon Farm has closed after more than twenty years of growing produce for Champaign-Urbana. Since the 1990s, Blue Moon Farm has been growing crops in Urbana, and the farm announced on …

This Saturday, May 21st, Museum of the Grand Prairie will be showcasing their new exhibit History of Healing: Infectious Diseases and Community Responses to Defeat Them. According to their website, it will “focus on the …

The instrumental electronic group Salaryman have reformed to play some shows in the upcoming months. They played a show in Chicago back in April, and now are hitting Tolono and Urbana in June and July, …

This one’s for you, C-U graphic designers. The Celebration Company at the Station Theatre is seeking a new logo and you could be the one to design it.  The following details come directly from a …

It’s time to explore Campustown with 13 Thursdays, happening May 26th through August 18th. Champaign Center Partnership is encouraging the community to take advantage of a quieter U of I campus, and check out some …

This Tuesday, May 17th, the Champaign Farmers’ Market hosted by The Land Connection opens for the season. Every Tuesday from 3 to 6 p.m. in Downtown Champaign’s parking lot M find farmers, bakers, makers, and …

Leah Marlene, a 20 year old musician from Normal, has made it into American Idol’s top three.  The top three contestants will each give a “hometown” concert — Marlene’s is tomorrow, Tuesday, May 17th at …

C-U Public Health District has been making Narcan kits — for use in counteracting an opioid overdose — available to emergency responders and loved ones of opiate users for a while, but now they are reaching out …