Champaign News

Even as Christian County farmer Bryan Fesser went to work on his corn crop Monday, turmoil in financial markets a world away was driving down the price per bushel at local grain elevators.

The Bud Light MXT is rolling into town! Manufactured by International, this bad boy is a 5 passenger, 4 door crew cab that is 8 feet wide, 8' 7" high and 21 feet long The Bud Ligh MXT has an audio/video system ...

Champaign's newest interstate exit is meaning more money for some local businesses.

CHAMPAIGN – A bank rating service has sharply lowered its evaluation of Strategic Capital Bank and downgraded the ratings of two other area banks.

Violinist Michelle Lee returns to her hometown for her first concert performance in Decatur since she launched her professional career several years ago.

CHAMPAIGN – In what promises to be a major headache for local drivers, Springfield Avenue will be closed in Champaign between First and Fourth streets for most of October, starting Wednesday.

CHAMPAIGN – A corridor study is calling for $4.8 million worth of improvements to St.

The Champaign City Council is getting closer to voting on staff-recommended fee increases for developers and builders: But the city's finance director, Richard Schnuer, said the development-fee increases would ...

URBANA – Two men are accused of using an air pistol to rob a University of Illinois student.

CHAMPAIGN – Valerie and George Pyle got the word to some of their 30 employees Sunday.

Organizers had to move the event to Assembly Hall in Champaign because so many friends and family wanted to be there to wish them luck.

Champaign, Urbana and Danville public works officials say they aren't yet planning any cutbacks in the use of road salt this winter, despite the fact that the price of salt has soared 47 percent this year.

CHAMPAIGN – The students in Tracey Jones' sixth-grade math classes at Franklin Middle School were making posters Thursday illustrating improper and mixed fractions.

For 8 years the WGKC Van has gotten us from point A to point B. Well, most of the time it has.

The bishop of an Illinois diocese says it will appeal a jury award of $5 million to a former altar boy sexually abused by one of its priests, concluding that the payout could drain the diocese's coffers and ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Mitsubishi Motors North America and the United Auto Workers said Friday they have reached a tentative deal on a new collective bargaining agreement for the company's plant in Normal, Ill.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources says a black bear found dead in eastern Illinois last week was hauled and dumped there after being run over by a truck in Pennsylvania.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - University of Illinois English professor Cary Nelson thinks he ought to be able to wear a a Barack Obama T-shirt or John McCain baseball cap on campus if he wants to.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - An $8.9 million online campus launched by the University of Illinois nine months ago has had disappointing enrollment and fewer course offerings than expected, but the man who created it isn't ...

URBANA – Torriano Johnson doesn't like it that his court-appointed defense lawyer wants to be a prosecutor.