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Financial turmoil hits grain prices
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.
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Curtis Interchange Benefiting Local Business
Champaign's newest interstate exit is meaning more money for some local businesses.
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Strategic Capital rated 'troubled'; two others downgraded
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 Decatur for performance with orchestra
Violinist Michelle Lee returns to her hometown for her first concert performance in Decatur since she launched her professional career several years ago.
Springfield Avenue to be closed for weeks
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.
Plan calls for $4.8 million in work on and near St. Mary's Road
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 ...
Men accused of campus robbery with air pistol
URBANA – Two men are accused of using an air pistol to rob a University of Illinois student.
Papa George restaurant to close Friday
CHAMPAIGN – Valerie and George Pyle got the word to some of their 30 employees Sunday.
Local Soldiers Head to Afghanistan
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.
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Rising road-salt price won't cut use, officials say
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.
Teacher sees many positives in separate classes for boys, girls
CHAMPAIGN – The students in Tracey Jones' sixth-grade math classes at Franklin Middle School were making posters Thursday illustrating improper and mixed fractions.
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Ill. diocese to appeal priest-abuse judgment
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 ...
Mitsubishi, UAW reach tentative labor deal
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.
Dead bear found in Ill. was killed in PA
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.
U of I's campaign restrictions irk some faculty
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.
University of Ill. virtual campus flounders
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 ...
Man seeks to revoke his guilty pleas in Champaign incident
URBANA – Torriano Johnson doesn't like it that his court-appointed defense lawyer wants to be a prosecutor.