Philo News

PHILO – A fire at an attached garage of a vacant house in Philo on Tuesday morning caused an estimated $60,000 damage, according to Champaign County sheriff's Sgt.

The bidding process is under way for a number of state-funded road and bridge improvement projects in east central Illinois, according to state Rep.

The ABC television show Extreme Makeover, Home Edition, displays severe spikes in its Web site traffic as each home reconstruction gets underway, builds up cadres of volunteers and onlookers, and then airs Sunday evenings on the ABC network.

HERALD Project Manager for Brady Homes, Randy Timm, Bloomington, Ill., was recently involved in an a oeExtreme Makeovera in Philo, Ill., for the Nathan Montgomery family and their four children.

We're here to get our undergraduate degrees, however long that takes us, or to polish of a graduate degree.

PHILO – A brand-new home will be unveiled to the Montgomery family sometime this afternoon.

PHILO – A brand-new home will be unveiled to the Montgomery family sometime this afternoon.

The house of the Montgomery family is roped off during the filming of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" on August 25, 2009 in Philo, IL.

Kevin Carey, a graduate of Seneca High and a new Illinois Wesleyan University student, poses for a photograph on the set of ABC's "Extreme Makeover Home Edition." Carey was among 15 IWU students who volunteered Saturday at the homesite in Philo, Ill.

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" traveled Tuesday to Champaign County to meet Nathan Montgomery, who gave up a lucrative engineering career to start a charity that feeds hundreds of hungry families.

A family in Philo, Illinois got the word this morning... Nathan and Jenny Montgomery have been named by Extreme Makeover Home Edition" to receive a brand new home.

The Champaign County Fair wraps up this weekend after a week of rides and funnel cakes.

Ned Mulka The Daily Illini Riders turn south onto Lincoln Ave. in Urbana during the Cruisin' 4 Kids with Cancer charity event on Saturday.

The small village of Philo in central Illinois has a new water tower. The village on Monday replaced a 50,000-gallon water tank thought to date back to the late 1800s with a new 250,000-gallon water tower.