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Read more about the article Majority of Champaign and Urbana police live elsewhere; Effect of non-residency on community policing debated nationally

The window for the Urbana Police Department office inside the Urbana City Hall on Thursday, September 4, 2014. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Majority of Champaign and Urbana police live elsewhere; Effect of non-residency on community policing debated nationally

Post author:Claire O'Brien / For CU-CitizenAccess and Dylan Tiger
Post published:July 14, 2021
Post category:Government Justice

The vast majority of police staff members in Champaign-Urbana don't live in the cities they serve. Local and national experts attempting to unravel community policing solutions see residency as one more piece of the puzzle, but other factors may turn out to be more important for the community's residents.

Read more about the article Champaign and Urbana police struggle to diversify

Darrell Hoemann

Looking south to the Champaign Police Department Building on First Street. Photo by Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess

Champaign and Urbana police struggle to diversify

Post author:Claire O'Brien / For CU-CitizenAccess and Dylan Tiger
Post published:July 14, 2021
Post category:Government Justice

In 2014, the police staff in Champaign was 88% white and Urbana’s police staff was 84% white, CU-CitizenAccess reported at that time. Almost seven years later, those numbers are virtually unchanged, despite pledges by both cities to diversify their police forces.

Lauren Underwood

Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood spends over $5 million on reelection campaign

Post author:Jenny Tan / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:November 2, 2020
Post category:Government

Incumbent Lauren Underwood has spent over $5 million so far on her reelection campaign for Illinois’s 14th Congressional District. During Underwood’s first election, her expenditures totaled $4.89 million; that number has been exceeded, with Underwood spending $5.3 million for the 2019-2020 cycle so far.

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Darin LaHood

Rep. Darin LaHood outspends all Republican Illinois candidates during 2020 election cycle

Post author:Sydney Wood / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:October 29, 2020
Post category:Government

Despite no opposing candidate, U.S. Congressman Darin LaHood outspent all other Illinois Republican candidates during the 2020 election cycle. So far, out of the other top-spending Illinois Republican candidates running in the 2020 election, LaHood has outspent Jim Oberweis from the 14th District by $90,000, Jeanne Ives from the 6th District by $84,000 and incumbent Rodney Davis from the 13th District by $10,000.

Read more about the article Rep. Bill Foster’s spending focusing on staff payroll, donations in 2020 election

Bill Foster's official website

The most recent official photograph of Rep. Bill Foster.

Rep. Bill Foster’s spending focusing on staff payroll, donations in 2020 election

Post author:Miles Powers-Huang / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:October 29, 2020
Post category:Government

Seeking re-election for a fourth consecutive cycle, Democratic incumbent congressional representative Bill Foster appears to be comfortably spending campaign money outside his own campaign, as he lacks an opponent capable of credibly threatening his seat. Running in the 11th Congressional District of Illinois for the House of Representatives, Foster’s campaign has spent $1,451,981 so far for his 2020 cycle according to the Federal Election Commission.

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Adam Kinzinger

Rep. Adam Kinzinger fundraising expenditures rise up while media expenses decrease in 2020

Post author:Luis Velazquez / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:October 29, 2020
Post category:Government

Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger showed an immense change in campaign fund spending for the current 2019-2020 Illinois' 16th Congressional District election campaign, which includes a decrease of media and advertising and an increase in fundraising spending. During his previous campaign, Kinzinger’s campaign budget consisted of spending $788,336 toward media-related purchases. However, he has spent only $60,169 in media purchases and $28,459 in advertising purchases so far for his current campaign, which is a total of $88,628.

Read more about the article County Forest Preserve says tax referendum is “not a partisan issue”

Champaign County Forest Preserve District

Museum of the Grand Prairie in Mahomet's Lake of the Woods preserve, one of the six forest preserves run by CCFPD.

County Forest Preserve says tax referendum is “not a partisan issue”

Post author:Onix Nava / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:October 28, 2020
Post category:Environment Government Public Funds

The Champaign County Forest Preserve District is a week away from learning if voters will support its plea for an increase in taxes to support catching up on more than $4 million in backlogged capital projects. The referendum proposes an increased tax levy of 0.0160 to 0.1033 percent. The district decided not to increase its tax levy before a tax cap implementation in 1996.

Dean La Prairie

Jan Schakowsky

Big donations, decreased spending for 9th District Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s 2020 campaign

Post author:Chrisoula Motamed / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:October 28, 2020
Post category:Government

Long-standing Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky allocated about 75 percent of her spending during the 2019-20 election cycle so far on salaries, fundraising and a contribution of $292,632 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Her spending habits have remained consistent throughout her political career, with her annual Women’s Power Lunch as the biggest individual expense every year.

Read more about the article Democratic Rep. Sean Casten focuses on media buying in 2020 election

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten

Sean Casten's official photograph from his representative website.

Democratic Rep. Sean Casten focuses on media buying in 2020 election

Post author:Sabrina Lee / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:October 28, 2020
Post category:Government

In his first-time incumbent election cycle, Rep. Sean Casten has spent only $3,157,127 this election cycle as of October 1, nearly half of what he spent last election cycle. In the 2018 congressional election, Democrat Sean Casten spent upwards of $6 million to overtake the incumbent to become the representative for Illinois’ Sixth Congressional District, according to Federal Election Commission records.

Read more about the article Bobby Rush’s campaign spending on family ‘could be concerning’, analyst says

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U.S. Congressman Bobby L. Rush (1st District of Illinois)

Bobby Rush’s campaign spending on family ‘could be concerning’, analyst says

Post author:Delaney Appelhans / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:October 26, 2020
Post category:Government

Bobby Rush, Democratic representative for Illinois’ 1st District, has spent $402,044 so far during the 2019-2020 election cycle, with about $41,062 — one-tenth of his expenditures — going to his son, Jeffery Rush. Isaac Wink, policy analyst at Reform for Illinois, said there may be a reason to keep close attention to these payments.