Jonathan Blake was shot last Thursday night while dropping off a co-worker. Here's the account of the night, and the week afterward, through his eyes.
Jonathan Blake was shot last Thursday night while dropping off a co-worker. Here's the account of the night, and the week afterward, through his eyes.
Paxton native Todd Thorstenson's business role model? "My father. He was an entrepreneur who wasn’t afraid to try new ventures. As I was winding down my record label, my dad was the one who advised me to 'get into real estate.'"
Just like Whoville after being ransacked by the Grinch, supporters of Unity High football weren’t about to let a loss in Friday’s state championship game ruin their vibe.
Answers to questions about the new Rantoul sports complex, fewer Veo bikes around town, the slow recovery of MTD ridership and Chevy Chase Drive in Champaign — plus much, much more (i.e. C-U streets and stoplights).
Rockets football supporters made the trip from the school's five towns to see Unity vie for its first state championship in this sport, during Friday's Class 3A title game versus Byron.
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“My dad was a career Army officer,” William Pierce said. “I had to be medevaced to Libya. There was an orderly who kind of befriended me. I thought it was so cool that he developed that relationship.
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SPRINGFIELD — Lawyers for the General Assembly’s Democratic leaders filed documents in federal court denying that newly drawn state legislative district maps amount to racial gerrymandering, instead accusing the plaintiffs in the three lawsuits of trying to use race to redraw districts for t…
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 68 Friday over the past day.
"In late June 2015, former Provost Ilesanmi Adesida invited me to his office in Swanlund Hall to inform me that I was going to be the next dean of the College of Business. Serving as dean of Gies has been the most rewarding, challenging and exciting opportunity of my career."
We’ll be having a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas, said Xander Hazel, executive director of Champaign Center for Partnership.
He was found in Urbana in a car that had been taken from a parking lot in the 200 block of West Green Street in Champaign where it had been left running.
Although the judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison, the teen cannot be held in the Department of Juvenile Justice beyond his 21st birthday.
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“My dad was a career Army officer,” William Pierce said. “I had to be medevaced to Libya. There was an orderly who kind of befriended me. I th…
