High Cross Road from Airport Road to one-quarter of a mile south of Airport Road reopened Tuesday, according to the Champaign County Highway Department.
The latest on a long-anticipated bridge upgrade, Champaign Unit 4’s use of pandemic-related grant funding, and both good and disappointing news about flights at Willard Airport. Also, if you’ve gone to a movie lately and felt a little creeped-out in the parking lot, we’ll illuminate you on plans to fix that.
As for adding more lanes, that is in the works east of the interchange.
From townie taverns to inconsiderate drivers to never-ending road closures to delayed election results, Kathy Reiser has us covered on Thanksgiving weekend.
Norfolk Southern Railway will replace one grade crossing at a time, moving west to east.
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Lisa Sprinkle, Champaign County Forest Preserve District marketing director, said the district raised funds for the roof replacement last year, 'and it was one of the projects that we talked about during our referendum.'
Once work begins at a crossing, it is expected to last three to five days.
All-electric trucks in town, how Orchard Downs helped lure Dick Butkus, dying trees, interstate signs, the highest point in Champaign County, converting old video tapes to digital, Milkman Danny Clark, the county's longest-lived person and much, much more.
Officials are assessing a major break in a water line near Neil Street and Hessel Boulevard.
DANVILLE — Salary increases for the mayor, aldermen and treasurer were approved by the Danville City Council this week.
Illinois 130 between Hickory Lane and Main Street in Camargo will be shut for two to three days beginning Monday for a railroad crossing replacement.
Illinois 130 between Main Street and Hickory Lane to the south will be closed so that the Decatur & Eastern Illinois Railroad may replace its crossing.
The Savoy Village Board is poised to take another step toward a long-awaited improvement project for Curtis Road that includes a railroad bridge carrying the road under the Canadian National Railway tracks.
The road project will extend South Mahomet Road from Illinois 47 to Churchill Road at the school site.
One attractive feature is a gift from Paxton natives Jeff and John Grove — an 11-foot-tall clock to be added on the sidewalk near the commandery building that the Groves own at the corner of State and Market streets.
Some wiseguy has installed a homemade sign amid the snow-covered daffodil and hyacinth. It says: "Future Site of Golden Corral." In case anyone in the neighborhood was alarmed, the sign is an April Fool's joke, I believe.
Did the potholes get fixed along Parkland Way?
A long-awaited reconstruction project for Florida Avenue in Urbana stands to be expanded, with much of the new higher cost potentially picked up by a federal grant.
The big skull at Dallas & Co., a 140-year-old barn on UI property, the International Space Station, ownership of the Ribeye, all about the AirLife helicopter and whether a million electric vehicles will create a power shortage.
The ramps that connect I-74 East and I-57 South are currently out of commission in the biggest phase of the $216.8 million project.
The city of Monticello would like to build a new road that would access the former Hundman Lumber property off of Market Street, a 15-acre parcel now owned by food processing company Thew Arnott.
The work will cause traffic delays. Motorists are being encouraged to use alternate routes when possible.
Developing a park, roadwork and street lighting are among the ideas for using Ludlow's coronavirus fiscal relief money.
With Monday's ramp closure, any more in store for the interchange?
All of the nearly $1.17 million Mahomet is receiving in federal American Rescue Plan Act funding is going to one major road project — the extension of South Mahomet Road.
The closure will allow contractors to build a temporary ramp for the ongoing construction project on the interchange, expected to cost a total of $216.8 million.
Why the no-parking signs near my Urbana apartment? I thought those were legal parking spaces.
No traffic will be allowed through the closure during the work, which is expected to last five days.
CHAMPAIGN — The 400 block of Healey Street, between Elm and Prairie streets, near downtown Champaign will be closed for a week starting today so that a sanitary sewer can be repaired.
The bridge reconstruction is expected to be complete by the end of October.
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