Sidebar: Old theatres and opera houses in Champaign
By Emily Siner / For CU-CitizenAccess.org From the late 1800s to late 1900s, Champaign-Urbana was home to at least a dozen different opera houses, movie palaces and…
By Emily Siner / For CU-CitizenAccess.org From the late 1800s to late 1900s, Champaign-Urbana was home to at least a dozen different opera houses, movie palaces and…
By Emily Siner / For CU-CitizenAccess.org Leonard Doyle stands by the front window, next to the box office, and looks out. Park Avenue looks…
The C-U Immigration Forum organized a candelight vigil and march in Champaign, Ill. this week to show support for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. On Wednesday,…
By Elise King / For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- A grassroots organization still has concerns about the contaminated groundwater at the toxic site located at the…
By Emily Siner/ For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Irene Phillips doesn’t do things half-heartedly. She doesn’t just sing in her church choir – she’s one of…
By CU-CitizenAccess.org staff Twenty-one restaurants in Champaign County failed health inspections in the last six months, with critical violations ranging from improper storage of…
Last week, The News-Gazette reported that a Peoria-based construction company was ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution for falsely claiming it would hire…
Our collaborative work with Hoy Chicago in last year’s Midwest Chronicles gained high honors recently. The project took a look at the deep demographic…
By Kevin Huebschman/For CU-CitizenAccess.org A proposal to require restaurant owners to post a color-coded placard based on their latest health inspection results has raised…
The United States Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week over the constitutionality of the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act. The Defense of…