Hillary Isaksen opened Company 421 in Mahomet late last year to provide a venue for smaller-size weddings and events, and now she’s about to launch a new option for date nights called “Underground Dinners.”
A stroll down Memory Lane: Rediscovering the Chuck Wagon Diner, taking the interurban to Bloomington, the legendary horseshoe sandwich, the old C.S. Johnson factory, when the county fairgrounds were near Campustown.
“My parents came to America from South Korea with literally nothing. They had no money, didn’t speak English and had no college degree, plus were in a foreign land. But they worked extremely hard to create a new life, where they started their own business and gave everything and sacrificed much so my sister and I could have a good life.”
CHAMPAIGN — Three indoor practice athletic facilities at the University of Illinois are on budget and on schedule to be completed this year.
Popular food truck Just Bee Açaí is getting its own storefront. The grand opening is Friday.
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“We have something like 19 active logos, and we wanted something more unified and updated,” City Community Development Director Callie Jo McFarland said. “We wanted to develop a uniform brand initiative for the city.”
Out: Blossom Basket. In: A new cosmetology school.
Visit Champaign County’s 6th annual Restaurant Week is returning to an in-person event this year, and it will include more than 30 participating restaurants.
'I work hard to be as positive as possible, so dealing with negative people is very hard for me,' says Joe DeLuce, who in May will mark his 25th year at the Champaign Park District.
Do I owe medical expenses for out-of-network (OON) medical providers?
After 40 years in the collision repair business, Tim Tatman has sold his business and will spend the next year traveling with his wife and co-worker, Donna.
Has Willard Airport experienced much of this season’s weather- or COVID-19-related flight cancellations or delays?
Illinois’ 110 dispensaries sold a total of $1.38 billion in recreational-marijuana products in 2021, more than doubling 2020’s sales total of $669 million.
CHAMPAIGN — Two University of Illinois graduates will find out tonight if some of the nation's most well-known investors will sink their teeth into their celebrity video-chat business as they make their pitch to the crew on ABC's "Shark Tank."
Beaver in Champaign! Plus electrical switchgear in an unusual location, noise levels in the State Farm Center, (fake) palm trees in CRCE, flashing yellow turn lights in Urbana, a 110-year-old stained glass piece in a Champaign bank, and another warm, wet year.
The Urbana-based company will keep its name, and all employees are keeping their jobs.
Savoy's sales tax rate went up from 8 percent to 9 percent Jan. 1.
One-two-three, the hangars are being gobbled up for use — one for a hemp-growing operation, another for a motocross track, a third for a pipe manufacturer.
The cover story for the current issue of our Central Illinois Business magazine shines a spotlight on the Executive Club of Champaign County, which this year turns 40.
Want to own a piece of Champaign history? The longtime Dallas & Co. Costumes and Magic is in the process of auctioning off its merchandise.
Airport Executive Director Carl Olson said resumption of the flights will benefit Rivian, the electric vehicle maker that took over the former Mitsubishi Motors plant in Normal.
Christie Clinic has named a new chief medical officer, Dr. Candace McGregor.
Mentor Vicki Haugen "served our community with passion and flawless ethics. Even with a demanding career, she was present for me as a teenager, made us dinner every night, packed my lunch, helped me with homework and extracurricular activities like show choir and dance. I miss her terribly."
BLOOMINGTON — As a farmer himself, Richard Guebert Jr. stays in tune with the issues on the minds of Illinois farmers.
Additional 10 miles of trail at Kickapoo State Recreation Area between Oakwood and Danville will push the total to 35, part of a goal of having more than 40 miles by 2023.
When it comes to the pandemic and its effects, 'our crystal ball broke a long time ago, and the new one has been on back-order due to shipping delays.'
Marked differences in prices at pumps only a few miles apart
What is the status of the law regarding abortion rights in Illinois?
LIST: Winners of Rotary Club of Urbana's Vocational Achievement Award, including 2021 recipient Alvin Griggs
Passenger train stations around C-U, former businesses in the west Urbana neighborhood, a renamed car repair shop in Champaign, options for disposing of yard waste, free air for tires, the road between St. Joseph and Sidney and where to dine outdoors this (snow-challenged) winter.
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