URBANA — Bells rang across the University of Illinois’s main quadrangle as seniors lined up at Alma Mater to take graduation pictures by Altgeld Tower. Pandemic or no, May is still graduation season on the Urbana campus. An estimated 5,600 University of Illinois students graduated during the weekend of May 15. However, for many…
Monday May 17, 2021 Today’s headlines: With two weeks remaining in the General Assembly’s spring session, lawmakers’ attention will turn toward the state budget, and how to fill a $1.3 billion revenue shortfall. City leaders in Champaign are calling for an end to gun violence, as the number of shooting incidents increases. With the COVID-19…
CHICAGO — The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted almost every aspect of our lives, including our ability to afford food. Rates of food insecurity skyrocketed during the pandemic due to high unemployment numbers and the economic recession. Now, though, with vaccines more widespread and the economy beginning to get back on track, those rates are on…