Deadbeat Illinois: Joint project highlights burden of unpaid bills
By The News-Gazette/"Deadbeat Illinois: The Painful Price of Unpaid Bills" is a joint project by The Associated Press and its members across Illinois —…
Census Bureau overcounted same-sex couples
By Dan Petrella/CU-CitizenAccess -- A few weeks ago, we reported on this blog that the number of same-sex unmarried couples in Champaign County increased…
More Champaign County residents renting than in 2000
By Landon Cassman/CU-CitizenAccess -- A greater percentage of Champaign County residents were renting housing units in 2010 than in 2000, according to 2010 Census…
No easy access to food stamps for migrant workers
By Sean Powers/Illinois Public Media -- Every year, thousands of migrant workers come to Illinois to detassel corn and harvest crops. Often times they…
Welcome to our Tweet beat
By Michelle Hagopian/For CU-CitizenAccess -- I’m a journalism graduate student in the College of Media working with the CU-CitizenAccess.org team this semester and my…