If you’ve seen more people out shopping without face coverings lately, you’re not alone.
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.
Kombucha, a fermented tea beverage, is now being brewed, bottled and sold inside Urbana’s Lincoln Square at the new Cloud Mountain Kombucha.
When Santa arrives at Market Place Mall on Dec. 2, he is going to see new places and some new faces that he may have missed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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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.
“Nike has been a great partner, but our communication is that jerseys are a need. If this isn’t provided we will find someone to provide it, and frankly we’d be at a disadvantage for recruiting potential student-athletes if they didn’t think they could have a jersey here.”
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.
Hardy’s Reindeer Ranch bracing for a holiday shortage.
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Walgreens is set to close its store at Old Farm Shops, Champaign.
Champaign-based floral designer Andrea Hunt-Shelton is getting ready to open a new multi-vendor shop that will house her floral studio and several additional businesses serving weddings and other events.
Hoopeston used to be a hub of manufacturing. Then, many of the town's jobs went away. After decades of decline and decay, Hoopeston residents are trying to revive the town as they rally around a football team in the playoffs for the first time in 28 years.
Plans for the renovated hotel call for 130 guest rooms and 8,000 square feet of conference space.
Clark-Lindsey Village in southeast Urbana has broken ground on the first phase of its four-phase expansion plans.
In the fall semester of his final year in high school, 17-year-old Champaign native Dwayne Hubbard Jr. is the CEO and main producer of his very own clothing line.
Strawberry Fields and World Harvest International and Gourmet Foods in Urbana, The Blind Pig in Champaign.
After a soft opening week, The Literary, a bookstore serving wine and beer in the evening, and a second location for Hopscotch Bakery and Market held their grand opening on Wednesday.
She has an agribusiness degree from the University of Illinois and was raised on a central Illinois farm.
'We all hope and expect we’ll be good again this year, all that excitement returning — but it's legitimate hype, because we actually won.'
In response to the “challenging labor market as well as evolving customer shopping patterns,” Schnucks announced that nearly all of its stores — including ones in Champaign, Mahomet, Savoy and Urbana — will be operating from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. starting next week, clipping an hour off their current closing times.
The Ribcage started as a food truck in 2016.
Lots of music this week, from the Pygmalion festival to the Marching Illini to the Bob Dylan/Carl Perkins song, "Champaign, Illinois." Also, will The Ribeye ever open again?
The former Abbeyfield House in St. Joseph is being turned into a new child care center.
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“Acquiring Weiskamp allows us to become a major production facility for screenprint and embroidery,” Lance Dixon said of the mostly clothing-related end of the business.
Pure Being, a new center for healing and growth at 1210 E. Main St., U, will hold an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
'Very early, our thinking was that things would be back to normal by July. But as time went on, we began to wonder if we would be able to open at all.'
Gather Illinois, the large apartment and retail complex that’s been under construction at the southeast corner at Lincoln and University avenues, is now open.
'We have all these needs but no way to pay for them,' said Savoy Village President John Brown.
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