Saturday’s ceremony in Tuscola will not only commemorate 9/11 but hundreds of the state’s service members who have died since that day 20 years ago.
As police looked in the car, they could see several bags that contained a total of 5.7 pounds of cannabis.
The annual ceremony will begin at 8:46 a.m. - the time the first plane hit the north tower of the Twin Towers in New York City - at the police and fire memorial in West Side Park.
The parade steps off at 3 p.m. Saturday in downtown Arcola as part of the festival, which runs today through Sunday.
Prentiss Turner is accused of taking part in the fatal shooting of Martin Morrow, 29, of Urbana, on Oct. 8, 2020.
There have been over 180 reports of shots fired in Champaign this year.
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A friend was visiting me from California for the week. She watched my 4-year-old son while I walked my first-grade daughter to elementary school.
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Road construction, COVID statistics, restaurant openings and reopenings, Urbana's Labor Day parade, Champaign's Prairie Farm, a very heavy statue in a Champaign backyard, a longtime Hollywood starlet who was born in Champaign and a wartime fundraiser for the Brits.
Prentiss Turner is accused of taking part in the fatal shooting of Martin Morrow, 29, of Urbana, on Oct. 8, 2020.
There have been over 180 reports of shots fired in Champaign this year.
Today is Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
Cooper allegedly pinned the dog down by her lead and struck her 10 to 15 times with a metal scooter, known as a “razor.” The report said Cooper’s minor children were watching as she hit the animal.
Not long after the 22-year-old woman was shot in Rantoul Wednesday, police received information that her boyfriend might be planning retaliatory action against the shooters.
The pair allegedly kicked in the man’s apartment door. Bates was armed with a straight blade knife, which she allegedly used to stab the resident in the arm and the face.
Keeler admitted that between August 2018 and October 2019 she “misappropriated” the assets of a then 88-year-old Champaign woman and was ordered to repay $4,000.
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