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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.
On Main Street in downtown Champaign, the former News-Gazette building still stands, like a mausoleum to what is known as legacy news. Its signage is still intact. The high ceiling and marbled...
Residents at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park, a community with many Spanish-speaking residents, have been meeting with Champaign police over concerns about immigration enforcement. Lieutenant Katherine Thompson of...
The manager at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park said they are continuing to focus on maintenance and upgrades to streets throughout the neighborhood, which has a total of...
City plans made over a decade ago to incorporate a storm shelter for vulnerable mobile home park residents at Shadow Wood in Champaign have been abandoned, according to...
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...