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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.
Three summers ago, what began as a parking lot fight turned into a shooting where one man was killed and one woman was injured. Trevione Robinson, a 20-year-old man, shot and killed...
More restaurants in Champaign and Urbana received a red placard and were closed during a routine inspection last year compared with 2024. At least 13 restaurants in the...
Nearly one-third of the active elevators and conveyances like escalators and lifts in Champaign County appeared to have expired safety certificates in the Office of the Illinois State...
In 2004, an engineering study for the City of Champaign called for a $25.9 million overhaul of a central waterway and watershed called the Copper Slough. The study...
Getting an appointment at Champaign’s social security district office continues to take 30 days or more, but some recipients report that once they are at the office their...
Organic farmer Patsy Hopper, who lives five miles south of Urbana, has filed at least 11 complaints about pesticide drift with the Illinois Department of Agriculture in the...
Aaron Pittman-Teague died after being struck by a Canadian National train while plowing snow just north of Danforth, Illinois on Jan. 6, 2025. There were no lights, no...