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CU-CitizenAccess is an online newsroom devoted to community and watchdog reporting by journalism students at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.
The newsroom focuses mostly on Champaign County and central Illinois, but produces occasional regional, national and international stories.
As local news organizations across the country lose reporters and reduce local government coverage, some organizations are exploring technology and artificial intelligence (AI) to help make public information more accessible. Local governments...
Although Champaign County is under a 12-month moratorium on new large-scale data centers, concerns about the location of a potential facility continue to grow among residents. On July...
The failure to pass a proposed state law on data centers has pushed Champaign County officials to develop their own regulations to address concerns about the centers’ water...
The Illinois Department of Public Health said a recent review of cancer registry data found no evidence of an increase in glioblastoma cases in Piatt County, despite continued...
Every day, tens of thousands of drivers cross the 735 bridges in Champaign County — and thousands cross the 53 bridges with poor structural evaluation scores. Most of...
“They ask me, ‘What is going to happen to us? Should we start planning to go back, or try to stay and live in constant fear?’” said Lucia...
For years, Bloomington, Ill. has fought algal blooms in its two main lakes, which provide the city with its water. Algal blooms result from overgrowth of algae, which...