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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.
One year after Urbana launched an effort to revitalize the Philo Road corridor, city officials say new investments are beginning to take shape — but property restrictions have prevented a pharmacy from...
Since 2014, anyone could look up Champaign County restaurant inspections online to check whether a food establishment failed to meet health safety standards. The online database managed by...
Illinois collected $9.06 million from pesticide registration fees in fiscal year 2025 to support enforcement and education programs related to oversight of pesticide applicators. But state spending records...
The University of Illinois Foundation’s endowment returned 3.3% in fiscal year 2025, well below the foundation’s benchmark of 13.2% and significantly lower than the 11.1% return earned by...
Under municipal code, ambulance services in Champaign and Urbana can be fined by the fire departments for not meeting response time standards. Yet despite frequent failures to meet...
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...