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Seven07 pipe burst displaces residents
Gwyn Skiles / For CU-CitizenAccess
/ March 27, 2024
Over one year later, no detached housing built following Champaign ordinance
Zeno Jo / For CU-CitizenAccess and Nour Longi / For CU-CitizenAccess
/ March 4, 2024
Complaints about yard waste and housing in disrepair continue to rise in Urbana; Property inspections behind schedule goal
Michal Szczepaniak / For CU-CitizenAccess and Gwyn Skiles / For CU-CitizenAccess
/ February 29, 2024
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Neighborhoods
The night Monica Milanowski returned to her apartment at Seven07, a 14-story high-rise in Champaign, after going home for winter break in January, her apartment was flooded with four to six inches...
Some residents expressed concern about a negative impact on neighborhoods when the city of Champaign passed a June 2022 ordinance to build additional, detached housing on their properties. But over one year...
Some Champaign residents in Garden Hills have expressed concern over the number of businesses selling alcohol in close proximity to the neighborhood, saying those businesses are more prevalent in their neighborhood than...
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