Health officials: Lack of sick days leads to food-borne illnesses
We've been reporting quite a bit recently about the sanitary conditions of local restaurants and how much information about those conditions is or isn't…
Congressional hearing highlights challenges accessing broadband service
By Jim Meadows/Illinois Public Media -- People who live in a city may take broadband Internet service for granted. But in many rural areas,…
Stimulus money may explain Champaign, Vermilion stability on poverty
By Julie Wurth/The News-Gazette -- A new report from the U.S. Census shows Champaign and Vermilion counties holding their own economically in 2010, with…
Eating Out: Do You Know How Your Favorite Restaurants Fare in Public Health Inspections? Focus Program Transcript September 13, 2011
Do You Know How Your Favorite Restaurants Fare in Public Health Inspections? from Illinois Public Media on Vimeo. Editor's note: This broadcast came about…
Champaign County restaurants fail inspections but public never told
Geovanti’s Bar & Grill on Green Street failed its restaurant inspections five times from September 2008 through February of this year. But no one who eats there would ever know, unless they took the initiative to request copies of the popular Campustown restaurant’s inspection reports from the local health department.