There was a buzz inside the Virginia Theatre on Thursday as work continued ahead of “Opening Night” on Sept. 25.
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 38 Monday, with no new testing data reported on the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District website.
When originally proposed in July, this year’s budget anticipated $7 million in CPPRT funds this fiscal year. But when the state prediction last month came in at $10.2 million, Superintendent Vic Zimmerman added $3.2 in revenue to the budget, which was approved by the school board.
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 63 Thursday.
The NAACP-Danville Branch, which has been going door-to-door in the city's poorest neighborhoods to promote COVID vaccination, is holding a pandemic health awareness event Saturday.
A woman in her 70s was the 186th Champaign County resident to die of COVID-19.
Rental assistance for those impacted by COVID-19 is being made available through the nonprofit Bridgewater-Sullivan Community Life Center and the state Department of Human Services.
Only 16 of 70+ campus entrances will be accessible. “Students may be coming in specific doors that weren’t where they entered the buildings before, but they certainly will be from now on," says Mike Trame, Parkland’s VP for student services.
The county reported four more COVID-related fatalities Tuesday — involving two men in their 60s and women in their 30s and 50s.
A man in his 30s was the 184th Champaign County resident to die of COVID-19, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
Area hospitals have been getting more patient transfer requests from outside their regions as COVID-19's Delta surge strains ICU capacity.
There was a buzz inside the Virginia Theatre on Thursday as work continued ahead of “Opening Night” on Sept. 25.
“It’s so clear to me that the artists want to perform for audiences again in-person in our theaters. It’s so clear to me that we have a lot of audience members that are very eager to be together again in our theaters."
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 37 Thursday.
Champaign County added 51 more COVID-19 cases Wednesday, along with 5,925 tests reported in the past day.
Expressing concern that ISBE might have overstepped its bounds by threatening to withhold funding from school districts that do not enforce its mask mandate, a legislative panel urged the agency to put its policies into formal rules.
The lives of two more Champaign County residents have been claimed by COVID-19.
Tuscola 14-year-old Nevaeh Usher won one of the Illinois' vaccine lottery's $150,000 college scholarship prizes.
Two more Champaign County residents have died of COVID-19, according to Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Administrator Julie Pryde.
Getting all health care workers vaccinated for COVID-19 is proving to be a tall order for local health systems.
Two more Champaign County residents have died of COVID-19.
The number of COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 149 Thursday.
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County rose by 97 Wednesday, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
Champaign County had 1,065 active COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
'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.'
Among the housing crises in this nation caused by forest fires and hurricanes is the continuing legal crisis of residential tenants greatly behind on rent from last year’s COVID-19-induced economic calamity.
Around 180 students had submitted requests for vaccine exemption by Friday morning. All requests will be granted on an interim basis.
Contact tracers are in demand as COVID-19 cases rise.
The event was held virtually last year but organizers had hoped to return to an in-person event this year.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District reported 104 new COVID-19 cases in Champaign County Thursday.
After seeing 75-100 new COVID cases a day in recent weeks, Champaign County had 240 new cases Wednesday.
Champaign County’s latest two COVID-19 deaths this week were a man and woman in their 50s, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
Centennial High School has canceled its homecoming parade, dance and pep rally, Unit 4 spokeswoman Stacey Moore said Tuesday.
A 175th Champaign County resident has died of COVID-19, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
A local public health official said it should become apparent within the week whether the presence of 41,000 people at Memorial Stadium will result in many more COVID-19 cases for Champaign County.
Illinois’ new statewide masking mandate is now in effect, and Champaign County started out Monday morning with 87 new COVID-19 cases.
'You don’t know when you’re going to get better, if you’re going to get better, if you’re going to be disabled by this'
While students are leading the pack vaccine-wise, the outlier group is the civil service workers on campus, who by Thursday morning had 65 percent of individuals fully vaccinated.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District reported 124 new COVID-19 cases in Champaign County Friday, with 11,329 new tests in the past day.
ImpactLife, which operates a blood bank in Urbana, is requiring its employees to be vaccinated for COVID-19 by Nov. 1, the Davenport, Iowa-based blood services provider announced Friday.
In East Central Illinois’ Region 6, 28 of 143 hospital ICU beds were available as of the end of the day Wednesday, while southern Illinois’ Region 5 had just six ICU beds open.
“It is truly difficult to come to terms with this decision after everyone at Ebertfest has put in so much effort to come back from the shutdown,” Chaz Ebert said. “However, we find it easier to make the decision to reschedule knowing that everyone’s health and safety comes first.”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker announces moves as COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the state.
COVID-19 cases in Champaign County were up by 47 Thursday.
“The hospital is filling up,” said Matthew Kolb, Carle Health’s chief operating officer. Carle is assessing available beds, staffing, supplies and equipment twice a day and assessing with care teams which patients can safely be discharged, he says.
A man in his 70s was the 174th Champaign County resident to die of COVID-19.
'What can be expected over the next four to six weeks? Many more infections in the community due to the more contagious Delta variant, and the accompanying increase in hospitalizations, particularly among those unvaccinated,' write the UI's Sheldon Jacobson and Dr. Janet Jokela.
A man in his 50s was the 173rd Champaign County resident to die of COVID-19, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
A girl in her teens was one of the three latest Champaign County residents to die of COVID-19, Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Administrator Julie Pryde said Monday.
A Champaign County teen-ager and two older adults have died of COVID-19, according to the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District.
From last-minute bus schedule changes to push backs on the state mask mandate, area schools are opening for a new year with a host of challenges, most of them related in one way or another to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A man in his 60s was the 169th Champaign County resident to die of COVID-19.