The NAACP-Danville Branch, which has been going door-to-door in the city's poorest neighborhoods to promote COVID vaccination, is holding a pandemic health awareness event Saturday.
Sidney firefighters honored for actions in August rescue
A woman in her 70s was the 186th Champaign County resident to die of COVID-19.
There’s no question who the MVP is for Illinois football so far: The students.
The county reported four more COVID-related fatalities Tuesday — involving two men in their 60s and women in their 30s and 50s.
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Diving back in to another round of quick takes on people and events that were being talked about this week:
News and notes from around our area, courtesy contributor Nora Maberry-Daniels. Have something to report? Email her at noraemaberry@gmail.com.
Only 16 of 70+ campus entrances will be accessible. “Students may be coming in specific doors that weren’t where they entered the buildings before, but they certainly will be from now on," says Mike Trame, Parkland’s VP for student services.
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
The county reported four more COVID-related fatalities Tuesday — involving two men in their 60s and women in their 30s and 50s.
Interviewed by detectives three days after Ricky Green, 18, was fatally shot, Michael Chatman denied adamantly that he was responsible for the death of a man he described as his “homie.”
The teen admitted to police he robbed the older man at gunpoint and shot him as he drove off.
An arrest has been made in connection with shots fired in north Champaign and a two-vehicle accident Monday evening.
Eighty-five years later, Greg Learnard and his two sons remain actively involved in selling corn and soybeans in addition to farming.
Warriors officials cite low athlete turnout and injuries as reasons for cancellations.
Illini open league play on the road at Iowa
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Eighty-five years later, Greg Learnard and his two sons remain actively involved in selling corn and soybeans in addition to farming.
The grain assets of Champaign-based agribusiness The Andersons have been purchased by Total …
The former Abbeyfield House in St. Joseph is being turned into a new child care center.
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Renee Fehr has pondered writing a book about her sister's murder since shortly after Sheryl Houser was found dead in the garage of her rural Mansfield home in 1990. But getting justice for Sheryl took precedence instead for the next three decades.
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I have learned to trust less since COVID-19.
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A lot of the things I learned as far as how to be a man came from a woman.
