The exhibit, curated by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. student Dale Mize, features a collection of objects representing queer history from Champaign-Urbana and around the world.
Vermilion County Pride Coalition will host its third annual Pride celebration at Ellsworth Park in Danville on Saturday, June 7. Founding members of the organization reflect on what it means to them to finally be able to have pride where they grew up.
Social distancing, sanitation, and remote work became part of our everyday lives when the COVID-19 Pandemic began in 2020. Five years later, its impacts are still being felt.
The Chambana Film Society will hold a new independent film festival at the Savoy 16 theater from May 29 through June 2. The first annual Savoy Lumière will include screenings of independent films, foreign films, shorts and documentaries, several of which were filmed in Central Illinois.
Located in the lush heart of Vermilion County, Danville National Cemetery held one of over 130 Memorial Day ceremonies organized by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday, May 26.
Inspired by conversations with architect Jeffrey Poss, Phillip Kalantzis Cope’s new book captures the legacy of mid-century architecture in Champaign-Urbana.
Over a decade ago, as part of his political science research at the University of Illinois, Scott Althaus dove deep into the data on World War II casualties. The project was focused on studying the information Americans receive about ongoing wars overseas that involve American forces.
The walls of the Champaign County Juvenile Detention Center are covered with new art, created by the residents in partnership with local muralist Leslie Kimble.
As the nation’s primary pollinator, the European honeybee is responsible for adding around $15 billion to crop values in the U.S. But nationally, the bees are facing the highest death rate ever recorded, alarming beekeepers and researchers.
Shozo Sato, founder of Japan House and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, passed away on May 4 at age 91. Sato dedicated his life to fostering cross-cultural understanding through art and education.
The Citizen Review Subcommittee was created after years of issues involving police misconduct. It’s supposed to improve community-police relations and ensure fair policing practices, but some worry its structure makes it impossible to achieve its goals.
The issues with Champaign’s Civilian Review Subcommittee can be traced to obstacles created by officials during the decades-long push for civilian oversight of police in Champaign.
Medicaid provides health coverage to millions of low-income people and those with disabilities. But the Trump administration wants to cut $1.5 trillion dollars in federal spending, which policy experts say won’t be possible without steep cuts to Medicaid.
Average rainfall in the Champaign-Urbana area has risen in the past century, according to the Illinois State Climatologist, and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources considers flooding to be Illinois’ most prominent natural disaster.
A friend of hers, drag queen Anita Mann, was putting together a pageant in Peoria and had only two contestants. At the time, Carrington was a frequenter of the shows but had no sights on becoming a queen herself.