URBANA — Improvements to the highway commonly referred to as the Philo-Tolono Slab in south-central Champaign County are coming within the next couple of years.
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Urbana’s city council will vote Monday on changing the name of Plantation Point after six of the 13 homeowners on the street petitioned the city to do so.
At its meeting Tuesday, the city council approved expanding the eligibility list for Champaign's COVID Small Business Grant program.
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Champaign's city council will vote tonight on contracts to demolish 18 properties in Garden Hills, one of the first steps of several toward addressing the Champaign neighborhood’s longstanding flooding issues.
Dennis Schmidt, 68, has been the director since 2004 and previously worked for the city as an assistant city engineer and for the Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District.
How has COVID-19 affected Champaign’s plans?
What construction projects are on the schedule?
Why is the road closed?
Road construction in Champaign, loss of Cardinals games for DISH Network subscribers, history of round barns, whether the Illinois women’s basketball team might return to Huff, potential airline for Willard Airport, pedestrian improvements outside of Memorial Stadium, more on Champaign’s now-silent weather radio station, interstate highway rest areas, Tuscola outlet mall and a not quite complete walking trail at Carle at the Fields.
In orders entered in two cases Thursday, Judge Tom Difanis gave Champaign-based The Atkins Group and the state of Illinois a 'preliminary just compensation' figure for two parcels of land that IDOT wants from Atkins for the rebuilding of the old cloverleaf exit.
URBANA — West Park Street between North Wright and North Romine streets in Urbana will be closed to through traffic Jan. 6-7 for a project at OSF Heart of Mary Medical Center, weather permitting.
To put it bluntly, 'there is none,' said Stacey DeLorenzo, transportation coordinator for the University of Illinois Facilities and Services. 'Welcome to the world for the next two years.'
'I told them they couldn't demo Kam's this week,' said Stacey DeLorenzo, transportation coordinator for UI Facilities and Services. 'They can do whatever they want after Friday.'
Now that the Bradley Avenue bridge is open, what's next?
We said bye-bye to Burnham Mansion, the late Great Impasta and those funky eclipse glasses, and welcome to the 44th president, the Pride Parade and a Pesotum farm-playing Luke Bryan. As the clock winds down on the 2010s — and the countdown continues to a new Costco in Champaign, a casino in Danville and A/C at last throughout Central High School
What's to become of all those handprints at Meadowbrook Park?
Drivers are urged to be on the alert for the new all-way stop at the intersection of Prospect Avenue and Burwash/Pittsfield.
After work wrapped up Tuesday, the bustling thoroughfare over Interstate 74 fully reopened for the first time since June.
The Exit 235B ramp connecting southbound Interstate 57 to westbound Interstate 72 is closed due to the crash.
Here is a list of street closures and road construction in East Central Illinois, provided by public works offices: (If your public works department wants to send one, submit it via email to breaking@news-gazette.com.)
A record number of public and private construction projects are underway on and off campus as classes resume.
On Aug. 16, all traffic on Lynn between University Avenue and Church Street will be one-way headed south.
The agency released more details on the plan Wednesday, saying the project was prompted both by safety concerns at intersections and overall pavement conditions.
State Sen. Chapin Rose, R-Mahomet, said it has taken years of meetings and urging on the part of Champaign officials, residents and area lawmakers to get the project to this point.
And the proposal for the section between Bloomington Road and Springfield Avenue has been met with concerns about traffic, speeders and encroachment on yards.
The project that got underway this spring is running on schedule, and it’s set to be wrapped up around Nov. 15, according to IDOT.
According state police, starting at 10 p.m., the lanes will be closed between mile markers 197 and 192 for about five hours as repairs are completed.
The governor said the six-year capital plan could create 540,000 jobs while investing in roads, bridges, railways, universities, early-childhood centers, a state crime lab and veterans homes, among others.
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