CHAMPAIGN — Beer will be flowing, a new patio is ready for students and the Illini home schedule features three top Big Ten opponents.
With the Class of 2023 descending upon campus this week, we asked UI faculty members what they remember most about their one part thrilling, one part terrifying freshman experience.
The summer of 1919 was filled with uncertainty for the people of Champaign County, who in just two years had become big fans of Chanute Field and the pioneer aviators who flew there.
Illini football parking lots won’t be free this season, as many fans suggested in a recent Division of Intercollegiate Athletics survey.
URBANA — A Villa Grove man arrested Friday for allegedly hitting and sexually assaulting a woman is expected to appear in court Monday.
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In this week's edition: Replica turkey spurs by Scotty Branca of Tuscola are gaining popularity; hunting deadlines are approaching; big fishing catches at the Conservation World pond at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield.
Staff writer Paul Wood chats with the producer at Parkland’s Staerkel Planetarium who also serves as an educator and a technician.
A look back at one of the happier moments for Illini Nation, the night the 2004-05 Illini made their emphatic move to No. 1 with a 91-73 drubbing of top-ranked Wake Forest.
Today is Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
URBANA — A Villa Grove man arrested Friday for allegedly hitting and sexually assaulting a woman is expected to appear in court Monday.
Here is a list of street closures and road construction in East Central Illinois, provided by public works offices: (If your public works department wants to send one, submit it via email to breaking@news-gazette.com.)
Angele Thibodeaux Burns' resignation, which is effective at the end of the month, comes four months after the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity sent her a letter demanding that she resign due to her 'egregious' mismanagement.
The Urbana Democrat said Friday that she didn’t find out about the second of the Republican congressman's Open Government Nights until she read about in last Sunday’s News-Gazette, and was surprised she wasn’t asked to sit alongside him in her own state House district.
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Staff writer Paul Wood chats with the producer at Parkland’s Staerkel Planetarium who also serves as an educator and a technician.
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It’s back-to-school time! Not only are the children heading back into the classrooms, but in these two new picture books, their pets and other animals are as well.
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Jessica Barron was resting in her room on a June afternoon.
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Internal Revenue Service numbers show residents are fleeing Illinois and taking their money with them.
