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.
Popular food truck Just Bee Açaí is getting its own storefront. The grand opening is Friday.
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.
Christie Clinic has named a new chief medical officer, Dr. Candace McGregor.
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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.
Midwest Engineering and Testing, Champaign, has expanded to a third city, buying Ramsey Geotechnical Engineering in Bloomington.
Ice House, a new hockey arena, snowfall records, UI President's House, State Farm Center noise, H Mart, a new pizza place for north Champaign, interstate highway construction, an old dairy farm in Urbana and Champaign County inmates in the Illinois Department of Corrections.
Mahomet's new ice cream parlor, the Main Scoop, is open.
Tom's Mailbag publishes at 2 p.m. Christmas Eve.
Updates on Blue Waters supercomputer, Sweet Basil Cafe, Pipa's Pub and a former Hardee's in Champaign — plus much, much more.
Jan. 1 is the soonest the bar could reopen.
There are some new spins in store for the popular sushi and seafood joint.
It's a big, fat Santa Claus-like mailbag (campus construction, I-57/I-74 interchange, speed limits on Windsor Road, future of the Orpheum Children's Museum, Champaign school vaccinations, late snow, streetlights in Champaign and a BTN rebroadcast of the epic Illinois-Northwestern football game).
The COVID-19 pandemic hit Champaign-Urbana Adventures In Time & Space hard, but owners Chris and Anne Lukeman didn’t let that stop them.
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URBANA — The Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant, which has been on the University of Illinois campus in Urbana for more than a half-century, has announced that it won’t be reopening after winter break, as hoped, due to pandemic-related losses.
Plans for the new Moonbeans coffee shop near Walmart in Savoy are progressing.
The I Hotel and Conference Center near State Farm Center will be the host hotel for IHSA officials.
Building materials supplier R.P. Lumber is buying competitor Alexander Lumber, with plans to close on the acquisition Dec. 3.
Here's where to find last-minute groceries, convenient care and COVID testing on Thanksgiving.
Mr. Herges taught all of his bartenders that they were there to listen to their customers, not to spill out their own troubles
Kombucha, a fermented tea beverage, is now being brewed, bottled and sold inside Urbana’s Lincoln Square at the new Cloud Mountain Kombucha.
Thanksgiving arrived early for nearly 40 young mothers and their families, who received catered dinners and a gift basket, featuring an air fryer, crock pot and enough food to cook a holiday meal at home, all provided by local sponsors.
Questions about Dallas and Co., towing in downtown Champaign, Raising Cane's, Pekara, the decrepit Diamond School building, the old Robson farm, Urbana church construction, Railside Golf Course, development in Rantoul, school enrollment and a blast from C-U's past: Michael "Fuzzy" deLisle.
Rage Room has nine different rooms where customers wearing protective gear can grab a baseball or a hammer and smash up items such as cast-off electronics or glass to help relieve their stress.
A town known for its connection to broomcorn also prides itself on its long-running history with football, both high school and professional.
The solar field you may have noticed on Champaign County Road 1700 N belongs to Illinois American Water Co., and the utility is projecting it will help reduce its annual energy costs.
Questions about what's being done about violence in Champaign-Urbana, a perpetual motion machine in Iroquois County, a tribute to police at West Side Park, Popeye's in Champaign, slow mail in Danville, a great entertainer from Urbana named Virginia Sale and products from the University of Illinois farms.
For the second straight year, Jason Mack will set the record for the world's largest glass Christmas tree.
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