Champaign News

The Champaign Southwest Mass Transit District board voted itself out of business Tuesday night, opting to establish an endowment fund with the approximately $75,000 remaining in its bank account.

Champaign Mayor Don Gerard was in court on Tuesday, this time testifying on his own behalf that the judge presiding over his dispute with ex-girlfriend Laura Huth is biased in Huth's favor.

Champaign Centennial quarterback Jimmy Fitzgerald picked up his second Division-I scholarship offer this week, the latest coming from Yale.

Now thinking they can get at least $2.3 million in new revenue annually, Urbana & Champaign Sanitary District officials continue to work toward a contract with a proposed Tuscola fertilizer plant for the sale of the district's treated wastewater.

Local officials are seeking federal funds for a massive $29.7 million infrastructure improvement project on five center city corridors that connect the University of Illinois with downtown Champaign and downtown Urbana.

A woman lost her husband in a tragic accident, but a decision he made years ago is helping him and a family friend live on.

The Macon County coroner said that a woman who was found dead in a portable toilet at a high school construction site last week was a former resident of Champaign and Urbana.

According to a state police report, Joseph M. Eisenmenger, 58, who listed an address in Champaign, and David Smith, 84, who listed an address in Philo, were in separate vehicles that were stopped on Illinois 130 just north of County Road 400 N due to a previous accident when a vehicle driven by Ashley Hall, 29, who listed an address in Thomasboro, ... (more)

According to a state police report, Troy M. Rund, 45, who listed an address in Tuscola, was driving a vehicle north on Interstate 57 approaching mile marker 224 west of Tolono in a dense fog when his vehicle rear-ended a northbound vehicle driven by Kimberly M. Butler, 45, who listed an address in Champaign, at 6:28 a.m. Monday.

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A consultant working for the eastern Illinois town of Rantoul says the city is considering a range of ideas to help develop the long-closed Chanute Air Force Base.

After devoting the last 24 years to teaching children and adults about fire safety and prevention, informing the public about fires and helping victims of tragic fires, Dena Schumacher is hanging up her fire cap.

WASHINGTON , June 17, 2013 - Sunny Provence isn't the only place with endless fields of lavender reaching to the horizon.

When Ohio State announced on June 4 that President E. Gordon Gee was retiring from his post effective July 1, many students, faculty and community members were left with lingering questions of who will replace him, how much the new president will be paid and how this person will be selected.

The Net Worth Business TV program announces June air dates for Champaign, Illinois and vicinity.

More than 3,600 people live in Vermilion County but work in Champaign County, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

The line for free groceries at Salt & Light's food pantry stretched well outside the front doors, and volunteers inside were prepared for a crowd.

It was encomium galore when Provost Ilesanmi Adesida was honored at the Urban-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois, United States where Nigerian-Americans gathered to celebrate his elevation as the first African to head an Ivy League school in the country.

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