The median total compensation for Urbana employees in Fiscal Year 2018-2019 is $70,739. However, the median total compensation for Champaign city employees in the same year is $114,323. In total, 21 employees in Champaign received total compensations over $200,000, while no employee in Urbana exceeded that amount.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District started preparing for the coronavirus outbreak in January of this year, but no testing for the disease locally began…
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Despite sharp spikes in population, such as a population of 173 on March 24, the number has stayed below the 2019 daily average since safety precautions began earlier this month. As of March 27, the number had fallen back to 157 people — with 11 serving prison sentences, 128 awaiting trial and the rest on Electronic Home Detention. “We have taken steps to encourage officers to not bring in inmates if they don't need to and have also been working with the State's Attorney's office to identify inmates who don't pose a safety risk who can be released from jail,” Sheriff Dustin Heuerman wrote in an email to CU-CitizenAccess.org.
The Small Business Administration has opened application for low-interest disaster loans for small businesses in Illinois. It is offering webinars on the program and how to apply.
Elizabeth Schneider is a marketing program manager at NanoString Technologies and is based in Seattle, Washington. This is a republication of her Facebook post…