Longtime Champaign County residents Ruth Yontz and Antonia Herbstreit had never met before organizing what would become an AI data center resistance group. Yontz, a former faculty member at the ...

Restrictive covenants associated with the former Walgreens property prevent another pharmacy from operating near the Philo Road corridor.

An explosion in September at the Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) plant in Decatur, Illinois injured eight workers, but federal work safety data shows it was only the latest in series of safety incidents ...

Without notice to the public, the Urbana Open Data Portal was shut down after nearly 10 years of service. Urbana residents and the general public could use the portal to explore over 30 datasets, ...

Residents in Monticello received a cross-connection water survey in the mail this past spring, as questions continue to circulate in the community about the safety and quality of the town’s drinking ...

The Clinton Power Station nuclear reactor, about 34 miles from Champaign, generates enough energy to provide heating and electricity for over 800,000 of Illinois’ almost 13 million homes. At the ...

Lessie Ann Patterson lived in Monticello, Illinois, for 25 years before dying in 2015 from glioblastoma, a rapidly advancing brain cancer with an average survival time of 12 to 18 months. Belinda ...

In just one year, state and federal fines against the four nursing homes in Champaign County nearly tripled from $117,401 to $334,015, according to Medicare and the Illinois Department of Public ...

First it was County Market in 2016. Next it was Family Video in 2021 and Burger King in 2024. Soon after, Walgreens, CVS and Family Dollar closed their doors for good in 2025. In the last nine years, ...

Residents at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park, a community with many Spanish-speaking residents, have been meeting with Champaign police over concerns about immigration enforcement. Lieutenant Katherine ...

Over the past five years, federal workplace safety officials inspected about 1,800 roofing contractors in Illinois. But a CU-CitizenAccess review found no state records that showed that 1,200 of those ...