Champaign schools faced another semester of transportation issues impacting local students and families. Stacey Moore, the chief communications officer of Champaign Unit 4, said the district is still struggling to hire enough school bus drivers. “Providing safe transportation continues to be a top priority for our district,” Moore said in an email. “But like many…
CHAMPAIGN — Governor JB Pritzker is scheduled to visit the Construction Technology Applications Center at Parkland College Champaign, tomorrow, December 15, 2023 at 10:00am CST. The Governor has been actively involved in the reconstruction of I-57, which is a major focus of the Rebuild Illinois capital program. The program has invested $82.1 million in multiyear…
December 14, 2023 Today’s headlines: Governor J.B. Pritzker has declared this week dog and cat adoption week in Illinois. Governor J.B. Pritzker’s office says there are no plans to pay a private security firm for construction at a now-scrapped base camp to shelter migrants. The Cook County Department of Public Health says now is the…
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