During a virtual meeting with the UI president, applied health sciences Professor Kim Graber said: “I know it’s a difficult budgetary time, but I can’t even remember the last time we had a 3 percent raise. … It’s just not acceptable for a world-class university.”
'COVID-19 is not merely a nuisance or an inconvenience. These dashboards with those numbers to which we have grown so hardened are not statistics to be debated and analyzed. These are human lives. Every infection. Every hospitalization. Every death.'
New daily case totals: Champaign County, 46 ... Douglas County, 21 ... Ford County, 4 ... Iroquois County, 10 ... Piatt County, 9 ... Vermilion County, 109 ... UI campus, 26 ... State, 3,667.
Total doses administered in area counties: Champaign, 18,847 (up 159) ... Douglas, 1,067 (+8) ... Ford, 789 (+4) ... Iroquois, 1,615 (+24) ... Piatt, 1,280 (+91) ... Vermilion, 2,615 (+285).
During a virtual meeting with the UI president, applied health sciences Professor Kim Graber said: “I know it’s a difficult budgetary time, but I can’t even remember the last time we had a 3 percent raise. … It’s just not acceptable for a world-class university.”
Vaccination appointments will become available for day care workers with underlying health conditions and K-12 teachers and school support staff with health conditions at schools doing in-person instruction.
During a virtual meeting with the UI president, applied health sciences Professor Kim Graber said: “I know it’s a difficult budgetary time, but I can’t even remember the last time we had a 3 percent raise. … It’s just not acceptable for a world-class university.”
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DANVILLE — When Douglas Toole started working at the Vermilion County Health Department office as a part-time summer worker, he didn’t even have a place to fill out paperwork.
Vaccination appointments will become available for day care workers with underlying health conditions and K-12 teachers and school support staff with health conditions at schools doing in-person instruction.
All three libraries have been closed since late November when the state began imposing stricter rules to try and slow down the spread of coronavirus.
During the school year, John Lubinski drives from his home in St. Joseph to his teaching job in Potomac.
CHAMPAIGN — Two Champaign school board members expressed exasperation Monday with Superintendent Susan Zola’s plan for returning to in-person learning.
Local tributes to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., busiest C-U intersections, Champaign County deaths, Danville Gardens Too, Hickory River, deer in Meadowbrook Park, Mattis Avenue bridges, Rep. Rodney Davis' Facebook page, Stone Creek paths and much, much more.
Total doses administered in area counties: Champaign, 18,688 (up 17 overnight) ... Douglas, 1,059 (+2) ... Ford, 785 (no change) ... Iroquois, 1,589 (+2) ... Piatt, 1,189 (+1) ... Vermilion, 2,330 (+1).
Region 6 hospitalizations, at 181 a week ago, now at 159 ... Registering their lowest 7-day positivity rates in three-plus months: Piatt County (lowest in 110 days), Ford (109), Champaign (93). ... Rates by area county: Champaign, 4.8% (-0.1%); Douglas, 6.5% (+0.2%); Ford, 3.9% (-1.3%); Iroquois, 4.7% (-0.5%); Piatt, 3.5% (-0.4%); Vermilion, 7.8% (-0.6%).
New COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 83, to 15,966, in the past day.
Total doses administered in area counties: Champaign, 18,671 (up 323 overnight) ... Douglas, 1,057 (+3) ... Ford, 785 (+4) ... Iroquois, 1,589 (+2) ... Piatt, 1,188 (+7) ... Vermilion, 2,329 (+10).
It's been 105 days since Piatt County's seven-day rate was as low as Sunday's reading (3.9%). Other area rates: Douglas, 6.3% (+0.7%) ... Ford, 5.1% (-0.2%) ... Iroquois, 5.2% (-0.9%) ... Vermilion, 8.4% (-0.3%) ... Region 6, 5.4% (-0.2%) ... State, 4.8% (-0.1%).
In chapter 3 of a multi-part series, we asked area high school students: What’s the one thing you most look forward to doing again once COVID-19 is in the rear-view mirror?
Like many wedding spaces, renovated Venue CU waiting for COVID-19 restrictions to loose before opening its doors all the way.
Parents and their children were happy to see 65-year-old crossing guard Dennis Paul back at his usual spot this week.
New 7-day positivity rates: Champaign County, 5.1% (-0.2%) ... DeWitt, 6.7% (-0.5%) ... Douglas, 5.6% (+1.2%) ... Ford, 5.3% (-0.2%) ... Iroquois, 6.1% (+0.1%) ... Piatt, 4.3% (-0.3%) ... Vermilion, 8.7% (+0.1%) ... UI campus, 0.3% (-0.1%) ... Region 6, 5.6% (-0.3%) ... State, 4.9% (-0.1%).
Total doses administered in area counties: Champaign, 18,348 (up 1,453 overnight) ... Douglas, 1,054 (+30) ... Ford, 781 (+13) ... Iroquois, 1,587 (+9) ... Piatt, 1,181 (+71) ... Vermilion, 2,319 (+269).
MONTICELLO — More than a quarter of Monticello schools staff members have had fraudulent unemployment claims filed on their behalf, Superintendent Vic Zimmerman told the school board Wednesday.
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Friday marked the end of Champaign County’s second week of COVID vaccination clinics for the public, with vaccination appointments for both weeks offered to older adults.
Urbana senior Banan Garada will host her third in a series of bi-monthly youth webinars about pandemic preparedness from 6 to 7 p.m. Feb. 1.
ISBE board member: “The message this sends to me is that somebody has decided that two years of a foreign language class are more important than art, more important than music, more important than career and technical education courses."
Total doses administered in area counties: Champaign, 16,895 (up 1,303 overnight) ... Douglas, 1,020 (+49) ... Ford, 768 (+18) ... Iroquois, 1,578 (+34) ... Piatt, 1,110 (+80) ... Vermilion, 2,050 (+205).
Friday's new 7-day positivity rates: Champaign County, 5.3% (-0.1%) ... Douglas, 4.4% (-0.4%) ... Ford, 5.5% (-0.4%) ... Piatt, 4.6% (-1.2%) ... Vermilion, 8.6% (+0.1%) ... UI campus, 0.4% (—).
Champaign County picked up 56 more COVID-19 cases in the past day.
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Tolono bar on the hook for a $50 fee to get its health permit reinstated.
President Tim Killeen said emergency-use authorization would also allow the UI to access $20 million in federal funding.
Thanks to recent easing of COVID-19 restrictions, Savoy's Skateland plans to reopen early next month.
New 7-day positivity rates for area counties: DeWitt, 7.1% (-1.8%) ... Douglas, 4.8% (+0.1%) ... Ford, 5.9% (-0.4%) ... Iroquois, 5.8% (-0.1%) ... Piatt, 5.8% (+0.3%) ... Vermilion, 8.5% (-0.2%).
Total doses administered in area counties as of Thursday: Champaign, 15,592 (up 1,485 overnight) ... Douglas, 971 (+129) ... Ford, 750 (+34) ... Iroquois, 1,544 (+50) ... Piatt, 1,030 (+85) ... Vermilion, 1,845 (+28).
Four local church pastors and Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike will talk to the community and answer questions about COVID-19 vaccination in a virtual town hall meeting at 6 p.m. Friday.
COVID-19 vaccinations in Champaign County will begin next week for county residents 65 and older, the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District announced Thursday.
Theaters will be restricted to 25 percent capacity, masks will be required.
East Central Illinois Region 6 has moved out of the state’s Tier 1 COVID-19 mitigation restrictions to the less restrictive Phase 4.
Two more Champaign County residents have died with COVID-19, and the county added 73 new cases Wednesday.
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URBANA — University of Illinois trustees will vote today on a tuition freeze for the 2021-22 school year, as well as a 2 percent increase in room and board and a 0.8 percent increase in student fees.
MAHOMET — The Mahomet-Seymour High School field house will reopen to public use in the mornings.
'It will be a slow process for guests to get comfortable with eating in restaurants.'
Happy 100th to the oldest living member of Salem Baptist Church in Champaign.
Region 6 will have to match all three metrics Thursday to advance to the less-restrictive Phase 4, which allows for gatherings of up to 50 people. ... Wednesday's new 7-day positivity rates: Champaign County, 5.5% (no change); Douglas, 4.7% (-1.0%); Ford, 6.3% (-0.7%); Iroquois, 5.9% (-0.4%); Piatt, 5.5% (-0.2%); Vermilion, 8.7% (no change); Region 6, 6.4% (-0.1%).
Total doses administered in area counties as of Wednesday: Champaign, 14,107 (up 1,410 overnight) ... Douglas, 842 (+65) ... Ford, 716 (+12) ... Iroquois, 1,494 (+66) ... Piatt, 945 (+40) ... Vermilion, 1,817 (+198).
URBANA — Citing the more contagious variant of COVID-19, University of Illinois Chancellor Jones is asking students to participate only in essential activities until Feb. 8.
Co-director: 'We are not saying that the Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon is going to happen Sept. 9, 10 and 11, but we have been given those dates to explore for doing some kind of event.'
Champaign County added 101 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, but the overall total of cases currently active continued to decline.
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Are you vaccinated?