Weekly RoundUp: Halloween
Despite the less-than-ideal weather, kids will dress in creative costumes and ring doorbells throughout central Illinois tonight for “just one more” piece of candy.…
Darrell Hoemann
Example's of lab components provided by Vermilion County Sheriff's deputies during a discussion about the area's growing problems with methamphetamine, Sept.30, 2013.
On Air: Meth use on the rise again in Illinois
Illinois registered the fifth-most methamphetamine lab seizures and arrests in the country last year. Listen to the original radio story and watch the television broadcasts aired on Illinois Public Media.
East Central Illinois Task Force in Mattoon, Ill.
Parts for cooking methamphetamine sit inventoried on the floor. Such parts are typical of the makeshift laboratories police are finding across the state.
A tale of one meth lab
Beginning in June 2012, drug task force agents tracked 78 occasions when people who had recently purchased pseudoephedrine arrived at Tena Logan's residence in Loxa, Ill., according to a written statement by FBI task force officer Scott Standerfer, in the case against Logan.
Provided by Michael Pasley
Michael Pasley cooking meth at unknown date and location.
Meth use on the rise again in Illinois
This past summer, Tena Logan of Loxa, Ill., was convicted of conspiring to manufacture 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and possessing it with intent to distribute. Earlier this year, Michael Pasley of Mattoon, Ill., was released from the Illinois Department of Corrections after serving more than two years for manufacturing meth.
Darrell Hoemann
Recovering meth addict Michael Pasley talks about his journey near his workplace in Charleston, Ill., Sept. 11, 2013.
Two decades of meth use
Michael Pasley first used meth in his early teens. Two decades later, his use came to a quick end when he was arrested April 5, 2010, in Mattoon, Ill. The arrest came after he spent 22 straight days high on meth.
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The Housing Authority of Champaign County's Wait List Application page.
Two housing lists open; most remain closed
By Robert Holly/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- The Housing Authority of Champaign County started opening up parts of its public housing waiting list at the beginning of August,…
Darrell Hoemann/The Midwest Center for Investigative Journalism
Signs explaining the closed USDA offices in west Champaign, Ill. on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013.
Farmers not yet hit by shutdown
Robert Holly/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting The U.S. Department of Agriculture was forced to send home tens of thousands of employees because of Tuesday’s…
Brant Houston
How CU-CitizenAccess uses data to inform the community
Last month, our co-founder Brant Houston wrote about the impact of data on our community and how data launched CU-CitizenAccess. Below is an excerpt…