Akul Dhawan’s friend called campus police about an hour after midnight on Saturday, Jan. 20. It wasn’t until 10 hours later that an unrelated university employee found the 18-year-old dead on a nearby porch.
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY Champaign County Regional Planning Commission and LIHEAP Offices – Closed Champaign Public Library – Closing at noon Champaign Park District – all programming is canceled and facilities closed Champaign-Urbana Public Health District – Closed Champaign Unit 4 Schools – E-Learning Day City of Champaign Facilities – Closing at noon Parkland College – Closed
Very cold wind chills expected. Wind chills as low as 10 to 20 below zero.
VERMILION COUNTY Vermilion County Basketball Tournament — Friday night girls’ play has been moved from Danville Area Community College to Salt Fork High School in Catlin. 5 PM: Armstrong vs. Oakwood (5th place; 6:30 PM: Hoopeston Area vs. Georgetown-Ridge Farm (3rd place); 8 PM: Salt Fork vs. BHRA (championship). Danville School District 118 – E-learning
Danville public schools are dismissing early due to a water issue.
For more than a year, Chicago has wrestled with how to house new arrivals until shelter space is free, with measures city leaders insist are a stopgap.
MACON COUNTY Decatur Public Schools #61 – no school at the Stephen Decatur Middle School building on January 17 and 18 due to a water pipe break and flooding. DPS Alternative Education and Macon-Piatt Special Education students are also included in the cancellation. The SDMS home basketball game and wrestling matches on January 17 will
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY Champaign Unit 4 Schools – E-learning Day Gifford Grade School – E-learning Day Heritage School District 8, Homer-Broadlands – E-learning Day Rantoul City Schools – E-learning Day Thomasboro Grade School, CCSD 130 – E-learning Day Urbana School District 116 – E-learning Day University Laboratory High School – E-learning Day Unit Seven Schools, Tolono-Philo
Illinois Public Media News is monitoring rain and snow forecasted for Central Illinois on March 11-12. This post will be updated with information from the National Weather Service in Lincoln and Chambana Weather meteorologist Andrew Pritchard. Snow or a rain/snow mix is occurring in the red circled region, with minor accumulations expected (up to around an inch).
CHAMPAIGN – The National Weather Service says Central Illinois could receive nearly a foot of snow and continue with subzero temperatures over the next 48 hours. The agency declared a Winter Storm Warning for Champaign, Christian, Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Edgar, Effingham, Macon, Moultrie, Piatt, Sangamon and Shelby Counties from Sunday at 6:00 p.m. until Tuesday
UPDATED Friday 7:15 a.m. – Icy conditions forced some roads to close in Central Illinois and some schools to close or delay opening on Friday. Much of the area is also under a Wind Chill Advisory. Here are the latest closures: CHAMPAIGN COUNTY Champaign Unit 4 Schools – Closed Friday Heritage Unit School District #8