Champaign County’s seven-day positivity rate down slightly, to 1.1% — far beneath statewide 3.5% rate ... UI campus has now gone 11 days without a daily rate higher than 0.5% ... IDPH report: 48,011 new tests, 1,402 cases, 14 deaths; 1,417 now hospitalized, 357 in ICU beds, 151 on ventilators ... Douglas County adds 4 cases.
14 new cases in Vermilion County report symptoms; six others say they're asymptomatic. ... State's 3.5% seven-day rate is 15th-lowest nationally, third-best in Midwest (Michigan at 2.5, Ohio at 3.1). ... UI campus has now gone 10 straight days without a daily rate higher than 0.5%.
The money will enable the program to expand the life coaching and career training the program offers to 16-to-24-year-old males from once a week to multiple times a week.
A daily question for the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District's Julie Pryde:
The money will enable the program to expand the life coaching and career training the program offers to 16-to-24-year-old males from once a week to multiple times a week.
Three days after setting a new single-day high for new cases with 32, Vermilion County matches it. The new cases include an infant. ... Just two new cases reported in both Douglas and Ford counties. ... Up in Champaign County: recovered cases (by 85) and hospitalizations (by one). Down: seven-day positivity rate (to 1.2%), active cases in Mahomet (by three).
A daily question for the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District’s Julie Pryde
CHAMPAIGN — Want to help your kids stay focused on their classwork when school is being accessed from a computer at home?
How Illinois' seven-day positivity rate compares to those of a few of its neighbors: Michigan: 2.7%; Kentucky: 3.2%; Ohio: 3.5%; Illinois: 3.6%; Indiana: 6.1%; Minnesota: 8.2%; Nebraska: 10.6%; Missouri: 10.8%; Iowa: 13.6%; Wisconsin: 14.7%.
The return of Big Ten football will come with strict medical protocols that will include daily COVID-19 testing for athletes and team staff and a 21-day isolation period for athletes testing positive.
The return of Big Ten football was only part of an onslaught of promising campus news during a school year that's had little of it. Also OK'd: the start of the college basketball season and the kickoff of movie night and a concert this weekend at Memorial Stadium.
A daily question for Champaign-Urbana Public Health's Julie Pryde
Its annual football fundraiser postponed due to the IHSA’s decision to kick football to the spring, the two Villa Grove women behind “Fight Like A Blue Devil” called an audible.
That makes seven straight days that the UI's daily rate has been 0.5% or lower. ... Five Champaign County residents are hospitalized with COVID-19, up from one a day earlier. None of the five cases involve someone from campus, CU Public Health's Awais Vaid tells our Ben Zigterman. ... C-U's emergency orders banning indoor dining near campus were both be allowed to expire at 5 p.m.
Official practices begin Oct. 14 ahead of Nov. 25 start
Governor answered more questions Wednesday about high school sports and why those like football continue to be postponed.
Yes, it's exciting. And treacherous.
Julia Johnson is about to turn .... 106!
The single-day and seven-day rates on campus are a matching 0.4% ... Two preschoolers are among Vermilion's single-day record 32 new cases, pushing the county's active total to 90 ... St. Joseph Grade School and St. Joseph-Ogden High each report one new student case.
CHAMPAIGN — With the number of active COVID-19 cases on the decline again in Champaign County, can you rest a bit easier?
URBANA — There were fewer reports of noncompliant parties and isolation violations last weekend, as University of Illinois officials expressed hope that enhanced COVID-19 enforcement is working.
Issues with the Champaign County Treasurer’s office have continued to pile up.
EVENING UPDATE: For the fifth straight day, the campus’ daily positivity rate is 0.5% or lower. ... Hospitalizations by county: 4 in Vermilion, 1 in Champaign, 1 in Ford. ... Vermilion adds 10 cases, seven-day rate at 3.8%. ... Piatt Nursing Home: No new cases since employee's Aug. 26 positive test.
That makes four straight days of 0.5% or lower daily positivity rates on the UI campus ... Champaign County: 323 active, 3,251 recovered, 1 resident hospitalized, 1.0% seven-day rate ... Vermilion and Piatt counties add five cases apiece; Douglas adds three.
Playing in the Big Ten as a member of Purdue’s basketball team, I experienced a lot of hostile atmospheres. Like Indiana University.
Joe’s is checking to make sure UI students have Bluetooth and location services turned on for the app, which are required for the exposure notification feature to work.
Our students collectively and continually distinguish themselves by their capacity for bottomless compassion, care and kindness.
If your company offered you $10,000 to give to the local not-for-profit agency of your choice, which one would you pick?
Our odd request of the kids at Northvivew Elementary in Rantoult — to write letters to Santa before Labor Day to be included in our holiday issue of At Home magazine — turned out just fine.
It marks the first time since Aug. 19-21, the first week of classes, that the daily UI positivity rates have been 0.5 or lower on three consecutive days. (Wednesday 0.4, Thursday 0.5, Friday 0.3) ... Active cases in Champaign County fall from 738 to 512.
Jeff D'Alessio's Big 10 column, administrator salaries, property tax bills, ballot drop boxes and a bunch of outdoor recreation-related questions in this week's 'bag: missing basketball rims, Champaign tracks, work at Busey Woods and pinpointing as close as possible the origin of the Embarras River.
Organizers are expecting up to 100 vehicles to participate in today’s “Cruise Our Town,” a socially-distanced, first-of-its-kind fundraiser.
Across the area, ceremonies marking the anniversary of 9/11 were different because of social distancing and mandated wearing of masks. Large-scale events were cut back for safety reasons.
Wednesday and Thursday marked the first time the daily positivity rate on campus has been 0.5% or lower since Aug. 27-28 ... Blue Ridge becomes first area entire district to go all-remote, following similar action by Cerro Gordo and Salt Fork high schools the past three weeks ... Vermilion among 30 Illinois counties on new IDPH warning list.
Members of ROTC groups at the University of Illinois climbed 2,000 steps in the early morning hours
No new daily case report from Champaign County as of yet Thursday. ... Since Aug. 24, when classes began, there have been 1,466 cases on the UI campus. ... More Pritzker: “Unless we get (COVID-19) under control, either by people following the doctor's recommended mitigations or with an effective treatment or a vaccine, we will be fighting to save the Titanic with a plastic bucket."
Carle Health is caring for 20 COVID-19 patients in hospitals throughout its system, 16 of whom were at the hospital in Urbana. Three of the 20 are residents of Champaign County.
URBANA — At Thursday’s trustees meeting, Chancellor Robert Jones expressed optimism that the enhanced COVID-19 enforcement measures announced last week appear to be working.
Those early voting ballots for the Nov. 3 election are set to begin hitting the mail Sept. 24, and Champaign and Douglas counties are among the area counties planning to offer a drop box option.
Ali Mirza, the Urbana campus' student representative on the UI Board of Trustees, says UI students consider Champaign and Urbana their home — a different picture than that painted by a recent Guest Commentary in the N-G.
Labor Day weekend totals from campus: 6,299 tests, 69 cases on Monday; 2,987 tests, 37 cases on Sunday; 2,609 tests, 37 cases on Saturday. ... The state's 7-day rate is lowest it's been since July 26. ... Vermilion County reports 11 new cases, 2.6% seven-day rate. ... Champaign — Illinois' 10th most-populous county — is 10th in state to surpass 3,000 confirmed cases.
I believe school resource officers are much-needed in every middle school and high school
With at least seven more weeks of remote learning on tap, the basketball court is ready and waiting for an influx of students.
What’s most misunderstood about the data is this, according to CUPHD's Awais Vaid: “I think the biggest thing is the difference between a positive test and a positive case. A positive test doesn’t necessarily mean a positive case.”
As if COVID-19 restrictions weren’t enough of a hassle — no spectators, lots of masks, specifically designated tennis balls — Sunday morning’s heavy storm nearly brought organizers to their knees.
A Ford public health official tells the N-G's Deb Pressey that the county's fourth fatality was a man in his 80s who was linked to the COVID-19 outbreak at Accolade Healthcare of Paxton on Pells. ... Vermilion County’s positivity rate: 1.78% (single-day), 2.6% (seven-day). ... St. Joseph-Ogden Superintendent: C-U Public Health not concerned about further student or staff exposure to confirmed case involving a high school student.
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UI forest plantation's name change, mental health care for Illinois prison inmates, a Jackie Robinson parking lot at the UI, crops at Parkland, a Champaign liquor store in trouble, poor landscaping around public art in C-U, , fast food choice in Tuscola and much more.
ARCOLA — The summer of canceled July 4 fireworks and festivals will soon come to a close, but what about some fireworks in September?
There are now 492 active and 2,361 recovered cases in Champaign County, where the seven-day positivity-rate dropped from 0.8 to 0.7% ... Active cases down by 272 in Champaign's 61820 ZIP code and 51 in Urbana's 61801. ... After driver tests positive, 'we have reached out to anyone who rode with that driver on Tuesday or Wednesday,' PIATTRAN Director Jami Trybom says.
A new Burlington store is coming to Champaign.
How to ... get Carolyn Hax to answer your question ... view the 2020-21 Illini (by Jay Bilas, Doug Gottlieb, Casey Jacobsen) ... think about a vaccine timeline (by Anthony Fauci) ... and more.
Students at Cerro Gordo High School are being moved to remote learning until at least Sept. 21 after seven people there tested positive for COVID-19 since Thursday. ... In Vermilion County, 'one of our positive cases has taken a turn for the worse, and is now hospitalized,' health Administrator Doug Toole says.