Urbana’s Black-owned retreat cultivates healing spaces through nature
How can rest be a form of resistance? We sat down with Ujima Retreat Center in Urbana and discussed how they are reclaiming nature.
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Tornado Watch for Central Illinois until 7pm CDT
Severe storms possible Sunday afternoon and early evening.
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Dialogue dives into what’s happening around Illinois
And a look at the first known cookbook by a Black American woman.
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Media Matters host and journalism scholar Robert McChesney has died at 72
From 2002 to 2012, McChesney hosted the radio program Media Matters on Sunday afternoons on WILL-AM.
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Congressional committee asks University of Illinois for information on Chinese international students
The letter from the House committee asks for information on the U of I’s Chinese International student population — claiming that relying on foreign enrollment could pose a national security threat.
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Champaign City Council votes unanimously on plans to identify and address housing concerns
Currently, the city relies on county-wide data compiled yearly in the Consolidated Annual Action Plan to identify its housing needs. But this isn’t as effective for a city like Champaign, said Lauren Weber, Champaign’s community development specialist who co-wrote the proposal for this study.
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217 Today: Urbana couple cultivates healing and growth through nature at Ujima Retreat Center
In today’s deep dive, we’ll listen to a conversation with an Urbana couple redefining what it means to learn, grow and heal together through nature.
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Despite Trump order, Illinois won’t require voter proof of citizenship
Illinois voters casting ballots in the April 1 consolidated elections will not be required to show proof of U.S. citizenship, despite an executive order issued this week by President Donald Trump.
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Bipartisan effort seeks stricter measures to protect sexual assault victims in schools
The bill would amend the Illinois School Code to implement a mandatory one-year expulsion for any public school student who is determined by that district’s school board to have committed sexual assault, sexual harassment or engaged in a sexual activity without the consent of the other person.
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The Japanese Paper Film Project brings forgotten film back to life
The Ebert Center for Film Studies is set to host The Japanese Paper Film Project on Friday night at the Spurlock Museum in Urbana.
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Government | Health | Politics
Health and Human Services will lay off 10,000 workers and close agencies in a major restructuring
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. criticized the department he oversees as an inefficient “sprawling bureaucracy” in a video announcing the restructuring Thursday.
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Rantoul mayoral candidates talk local economy, policy goals ahead of upcoming election
Rantoul Mayor Charles Smith is facing a challenge from District 5 Village Trustee Samuel Hall III. Both candidates say they want to support the local economy and rebuild village infrastructure.
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A university, a rural Illinois town and their fight to survive Trump’s war on higher education
The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public institutions like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.
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Bills seeking to ban carbon sequestration near sole-source aquifers pass House and Senate committees
Two bills that would ban carbon sequestration under the Mahomet Aquifer passed out of their respective House and Senate committees last week. The legislation would amend the Environmental Protection Act to implement a total ban on carbon sequestration under, in or around a sole-source aquifer.
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‘Poverty-level people’: University of Illinois AFSCME workers rally for higher wages
AFSCME workers who are employed by the University of Illinois say administrators are not offering them a fair contract after their last pay agreement expired in September.
