Friday, July 29, 2022 Today’s headlines: Illinois state lawmakers met on Thursday to discuss closing a loophole that allows people with revoked gun permits to still buy ammunition. The developers of a multistate carbon capture pipeline this week submitted an application to build the Illinois portion. A weekend-long effort to combat local gun violence starts…
URBANA — The annual county fair marks the beginning of summer’s end in Champaign County. The Champaign County Fair opened its gates on Friday evening to begin its 169th year after being canceled two years ago due to COVID-19. For some fair attendees, it was nice to return to the normalcy of pre-pandemic county fairs. …
Thursday, July 28, 2022 Today’s headlines: Google is expanding In Chicago – it’s taking over the Thompson Center. The state’s largest solar project could be up and running in Fulton County by 2025. Illinois Congresswoman Mary Miller met in April with the head of a group called Iranian Americans for Liberty. The second probable case of…
Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Today’s headlines: Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey is still refusing to answer questions related to last year’s Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. At least one person is dead following the historic rainfall across the St. Louis region on the night of July 25. The University of Illinois has…
Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Today’s headlines: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is out of COVID-19 isolation after testing negative, he said in a tweet on Sunday. The state of Illinois earned $445 million in tax revenue from legal marijuana sales last fiscal year. A new coalition of small nonprofits aims to tackle gun violence in Champaign…
The 4-H exhibition is an inseparable part of the tradition of county fairs, and this is no exception at the Champaign County Fair. The fair kicked off on the morning of Friday, July 22, at the fairgrounds at 1302 N. Coler Ave. in Urbana, starting with a horse show from the 4-H youth development program. …
Friday, July 22, 2022 Today’s headlines: Illinois members of Congress were vocal supporters of the Right to Contraception Act, which was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. The Peoria-to-Chicago passenger rail route now has an initial price tag: $2.5 billion. The Champaign County Association of Realtors says home sales declined by nearly…
Thursday, July 21, 2022 Today’s headlines: Three Republicans from the Illinois Congressional Delegation voted against a measure to codify same-sex and interracial marriages. Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering said it’s time for a nationwide ban on assault-style weapons. The University of Illinois leads the largest health study of box turtles in the world. The Champaign…
For the Urbana and Champaign fire departments, extinguishing fires in multi-story buildings will be a breeze after the departments completed their joint high-rise training last week at Sherman Hall in Champaign. The bi-annual training took place from July 14 to 16. During it, the departments split into smaller crews and rotated through three stations…
Wednesday, July 20, 2022 Today’s headlines: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has tested positive for COVID-19. Another county resident – a man in his 70s – has died from COVID-19. This is the fifth COVID-19-related death in July and brings the countywide death toll to 301. Governor JB Pritzker ended COVID-19 vaccine mandates for higher education…
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 Today’s headlines: Illinois State Police will start keeping clear and present danger reports to prevent some people from obtaining a Firearm Owners’ ID. The Catholic healthcare provider OSF HealthCare will only cover fertility treatments for its married, opposite-sex workers. The Urbana City Council is considering whether to allow a second plasma…
URBANA – At the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana campus, there’s a bike rack within 150 feet of nearly every campus building. Altogether, these bike racks can accommodate at least 11,635 bicycles, as of October 2019. However, nearly 1,000 bikes that are parked at these campus bike racks this summer haven’t been moved in weeks,…
Friday, July 15, 2022 Today’s headlines: Many doctors from Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin are now working out of a health center across the Illinois border. In the aftermath of the Highland Park mass shooting over the Fourth of July weekend, Illinois politicians are sparring over gun legislation. If your bicycle is parked at a University…
Thursday, July 14, 2022 Today’s headlines: Illinois college students and people who work in higher education in the state will no longer face COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Last week, Judge Lisa Holder White was sworn in as the first Black woman justice on the Illinois Supreme Court. She said her time as both a prosecutor and…
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 Today’s headlines: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker has appointed a new director of the state’s public health department. Dr. Colleen McNicholas testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday on what her clinic has experienced since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Black facilities workers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have taken a major…