February 2024 – CU-CitizenAccess.org

Complaints about yard waste and housing in disrepair continue to rise in Urbana; Property inspections behind schedule goal

Post author:Michal Szczepaniak / For CU-CitizenAccess and Gwyn Skiles / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:February 29, 2024
Post category:Government Housing

Rental property and nuisance complaints have soared in Urbana over the past few years, records show. The records, obtained via Freedom of Information Act…

Read more about the article Champaign County doesn’t allow looking up property by name. We made it searchable again.

Darrell Hoemann

Brookens Admin Center in Urbana, IL 61801 on Wednesday, December 15, 2021. Photo by Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess

Champaign County doesn’t allow looking up property by name. We made it searchable again.

Post author:CU-CitizenAccess.org
Post published:February 13, 2024
Post category:Article Government Technology

Although the Champaign County Assessment Office has a property tax lookup tool developed by the software company DEVNET, the office decided to remove the…

Read more about the article Champaign bars, liquor stores failed 25% of underage compliance checks by Illinois Liquor Control Commission last year

Police in a crowd at KAMS during Halloween weekend in 2023. Photo by Stephanie Wayda.

Champaign bars, liquor stores failed 25% of underage compliance checks by Illinois Liquor Control Commission last year

Post author:Stephanie Wayda / For CU-CitizenAccess and Farrah Anderson / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:February 13, 2024
Post category:Business Government Public Funds

The state of Illinois Liquor Control Commission has made enforcing and documenting underage drinking on its website a priority since 2021 — and enforcement…

The Rantoul Police Department failed to follow through on recommendations to further train officers on how to use force after the city’s first two fatal shootings. Photo by Farrah Anderson, Invisible Institute/Illinois Public Media

After fatal shootings, Rantoul police recommended more training. They just sent one officer to a gun range

Post author:Farrah Anderson, Invisible Institute/Illinois Public Media
Post published:February 9, 2024
Post category:Government Justice Public Funds

This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign County between the Champaign-Urbana Civic Police Data Project of the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based…

Read more about the article Champaign hired Police Chief Timothy Tyler despite disciplinary past and allegations of misconduct

Farrah Anderson, Invisible Institute/Illinois Public Media

In 2022, Timothy Tyler was chosen to lead the Champaign Police Department — despite a string of misconduct allegations from his first policing job in the south Chicago suburb of Markham through his time at the Illinois State Police.

Champaign hired Police Chief Timothy Tyler despite disciplinary past and allegations of misconduct

Post author:Farrah Anderson and Sam Stecklow, Invisible Institute
Post published:February 1, 2024
Post category:Government Justice Public Funds

This article originally appeared on IPM Newsroom on January 29, 2024. This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign…