Darrell Hoemann
A recent sweeping state criminal justice reform bill was intended to keep people out of jail if they could not afford bail. But while…
Farrah Anderson
Police departments throughout Champaign County paid over $137,000 in overtime costs to officers who responded to one day of protests at the University of…
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This past April, a Green Street Pantry employee was charged with selling alcohol to a minor who died of hypothermia the same night with…
Darrell Hoemann
This past February at a Monticello City Council meeting, resident Caitlin McClain spoke about her father-in-law who died of brain cancer in 2022. “My…
A cigarette butt flicked out of an open window. A late-night pizza sitting in the oven for too long. A hair curler left on…
In the first two months of this year, there were around 10 calls per day to emergency services regarding domestic violence and disputes in…
The Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) facility in Decatur, which processes grain products into food ingredients and ethanol, released 2.7 million pounds of toxic chemicals…
Rental property and nuisance complaints have soared in Urbana over the past few years, records show. The records, obtained via Freedom of Information Act…
Darrell Hoemann
Although the Champaign County Assessment Office has a property tax lookup tool developed by the software company DEVNET, the office decided to remove the…
The state of Illinois Liquor Control Commission has made enforcing and documenting underage drinking on its website a priority since 2021 — and enforcement…