By Robert Holly/For CU-CitizenAccess Officials at The Housing Authority of Champaign County are enthusiastic about the potential of the Moving to Work Program, which gives them leeway on how to...
A sign blocks the entrance to the property known as Cherry Orchard
By Dave Hinton/Rantoul Press editor The owner of an apartment building between Thomasboro and Rantoul did not attend a meeting of the Champaign County Zoning Board of Appeals last week, clearing the...
By Dave Hinton/Rantoul Press Editor The whereabouts of a caretaker of an apartment complex between Rantoul and Thomasboro is still unknown. Bernard Ramos, who with his father, Eduardo Ramos, had...
By Dave Hinton/Rantoul Press Editor A petition to rezone a closed apartment complex between Thomasboro and Rantoul remains on the agenda of the Champaign County Zoning Board of Appeals. John Hall,...
Photo of Margaret Neil sitting in the Joann Dorsey community center.
By Robert Holly/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Think positive, stay focused and take one day at a time. As a girl, those are the words Margaret Neil told herself when her mother passed away from a...
By Robert Holly/For CU-CitizenAccess -- For more than a month, community members have waited for The Housing Authority of Champaign County’s board of commissioners to reach a decision on...
photo of U-Haul truck in front of Dorsey Homes
By Robert Holly/CU-CitizenAccess – Community members told the Housing Authority of Champaign County this week that it was wrong to reserve vouchers for planned redevelopment projects while 400...
Map outlining Bristol Park area
By Robert Holly/CU-CitizenAccess -- Several community members plan to voice concerns Thursday  over a set of housing vouchers that are being held in reserve while 400 low-income households are...
By Matt Daniels/Rantoul Press assistant editor/ The village of Rantoul is likely to protest a request for a zoning change on a piece of property close to the vacant Cherry Orchard complex along...
  By Landon Cassman/Over the past decade, communities across the country have demolished or sold hundreds of thousands of public housing units. Danville is aiming to be such a community. Though...

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