Darrell Hoemann
Although the Champaign County Assessment Office has a property tax lookup tool developed by the software company DEVNET, the office decided to remove the…
Illinois State Police 2012
Despite an all-time high in the number of Illinois residents possessing a firearm ownership card, the number of gun dealers and businesses registering guns…
Farrah Anderson
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District and local group Advocates for Aging Care have launched a survey to help identify the state of senior services…
Last year, as of late November, 10 restaurants in Champaign County were closed and received a red placard because of failed health inspections. But…
A moldy bell pepper. Bare hands touching ready-to-eat food. Food that expired over a week ago sitting in the fridge. These are just a…
Daily Bread Soup Kitchen
On any given night, 215 people in Champaign County are homeless according to the Continuum of Services Providers to the Homeless Point-in-Time (PIT) count…
Darrell Hoemann
In 2018, Champaign County had the chance to allow the public to search property records on its website by an owner's name when it…
Nathalie Murillo
For decades, Champaign County forbade its residents in Wilber Heights to make repairs to their homes, even when seriously damaged. But even after a…
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Despite a small decrease in the Black student population, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has seen an increase in nonwhite student enrollment since…
Darrell Hoemann
Local advocacy groups and health care facilities have plans to address the shortage of nursing home beds plaguing the Champaign and Urbana area. The…