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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.
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Police departments throughout Champaign County paid over $137,000 in overtime costs to officers who responded to one day of protests at the University of Illinois over the war in Gaza, according to...
A cigarette butt flicked out of an open window. A late-night pizza sitting in the oven for too long. A hair curler left on during a night out. These scenarios are...
In the first two months of this year, there were around 10 calls per day to emergency services regarding domestic violence and disputes in Champaign County. It is the leading statistic for...
Almost two years ago, Illinois State University administrator Adam Peck was hit by a bicycle. Four days later, he died of his injuries. Peck, the assistant vice president for student affairs, was...
A cigarette butt flicked out of an open window. A late-night pizza sitting in the oven for too long. A hair curler left on during a night out. These scenarios are...
In the first two months of this year, there were around 10 calls per day to emergency services regarding domestic violence and disputes in Champaign County. It is the leading statistic for...
Almost two years ago, Illinois State University administrator Adam Peck was hit by a bicycle. Four days later, he died of his injuries. Peck, the assistant vice president for student affairs, was...
This past February at a Monticello City Council meeting, resident Caitlin McClain spoke about her father-in-law who died of brain cancer in 2022. “My father-in-law was a smart...
A cigarette butt flicked out of an open window. A late-night pizza sitting in the oven for too long. A hair curler left on during a night out...
In the first two months of this year, there were around 10 calls per day to emergency services regarding domestic violence and disputes in Champaign County. It is...
Almost two years ago, Illinois State University administrator Adam Peck was hit by a bicycle. Four days later, he died of his injuries. Peck, the assistant vice president...
For Patricia Marxmiller, a simple trip became the defining moment of the rest of her life. In February 2015, Marxmiller returned from her lunch break to the Christie...
After service struggles during the pandemic, the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) is restoring routes and investing in bus drivers as ridership rebounds to pre-pandemic levels. “In January...
This article was originally published by IPM Newsroom on July 24, 2024. This article was updated with additional reporting about Grayson’s claims to have been discharged honorably and the circumstances...
This story was originally published on IPM Newsroom on July 8, 2024. This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign County between the Champaign-Urbana Civic Police...
A recent sweeping state criminal justice reform bill was intended to keep people out of jail if they could not afford bail. But while Champaign County’s jail population numbers haven’t...
In the first two months of this year, there were around 10 calls per day to emergency services regarding domestic violence and disputes in Champaign County. It is the leading...