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United Way of Champaign County is in search of 50 young professionals who are interested in learning about nonprofit volunteerism. The Emerging Community Leaders program happens annually, and is geared towards people aged 21 to …

This Saturday, January 22nd, Director Chelsea Collier is looking for 20 to 25 performers to cast in Parkland Theater’s Spongebob the Musical which will be showing at Parkland’s Harold and Jean Miner Theatre from April …

Whether you are headed there for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or brunch, you’ll find some new options on the menus at Everyday Kitchen, like that tasty looking winter salad with butternut squash and pomegranates and goat …

According to Coldwell Banker Devonshire Realty, Walnut Street Tea Company will soon occupy the space that housed Pie’s the Limit at The Crossing in Southwest Champaign. The Downtown Champaign location has been around since 1981. …

Back in November, we learned that the Thomasboro school board was kind of maybe thinking about asking people to vote on removing a racist mascot. Well reader, after an hour of public comment, last night …

In case you haven’t heard, Central Illinois Bakehouse will be opening up a new retail location in downtown Champaign later in the spring.  According to their website, Martinelli’s Market —which recently opened a location in …

Making it Plain: Articulating our Racist Present is the first panel discussion in the series Making it Plain: Reckoning with Anti-Asian Racism. The series is funded by the University of Illinois Chancellor’s Call to Action …

The local açaí food truck has moved into the Illini Union and will be open for business starting this Friday. Famous for signature açaí bowls, Just BEE Açaí was previously operating out of a cute yellow …

If you have a young person in your life that is artisically inclined, encourage them to submit their work for Parkland’s Celebrate the Arts! Youth Art Competition. Youth ages 7 to 18 who live in District …