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A pie chart from the Illinois Opioid Settlements website shows how more than $531 million in settlement payments have been allocated statewide to date. The remediation fund receives the largest share at 55%, followed by 33% to local governments and 12% to the state. Screenshot on Nov. 3, 2025.

Champaign County spends over $700,000 from opioid settlement funds on local health, housing programs

Post author:Madyson Magnus / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:November 4, 2025
Post category:Government Health Care Justice Public Funds Public Health

Champaign County has directed over $700,000 in funds over the past two years from national opioid settlements to housing, health and safety supplies, medical…

Read more about the article Concerns about brain cancer cases in Piatt County grow, but Illinois public health agency yet to investigate

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A view looking north on Independence Street, just south of Marion St. in Monticello, IL on Friday, June 14, 2024. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Concerns about brain cancer cases in Piatt County grow, but Illinois public health agency yet to investigate

Post author:Molly Hughes / For CU-CitizenAccess, Stephanie Orellana / For CU-CitizenAccess and Nazala Salauddin / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:March 4, 2025
Post category:Community Voices Health Care Neighborhoods Public Health

Lessie Ann Patterson lived in Monticello, Illinois, for 25 years before dying in 2015 from glioblastoma, a rapidly advancing brain cancer with an average…

-Clark-Lindsey Village (101 W Windsor Rd, Urbana) on Monday, April 6, 2020. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Champaign County nursing homes fined nearly $1 million federal fines, $500,000 in state fines in past three years

Post author:Megan Harding / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:November 11, 2024
Post category:Elderly Watch Health Care Public Health

In January, a resident staying at a nursing home in Urbana fell from her recliner while reaching for her glasses. Several days later, she…

Read more about the article Concerns raised in Monticello about number of brain cancer cases; Data being collected from the community

Darrell Hoemann

A view looking north on Independence Street, just south of Marion St. in Monticello, IL on Friday, June 14, 2024. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Concerns raised in Monticello about number of brain cancer cases; Data being collected from the community

Post author:Gwyn Skiles / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:June 18, 2024
Post category:Government Health Care Public Health

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…

Read more about the article Health district launches survey on elder care amid deficit of nursing home beds, closed facilities

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Broken furniture and items lay outside the former Champaign County Nursing Home which William “Avi” Rothner purchased in 2018. Photo by Farrah Anderson.

Health district launches survey on elder care amid deficit of nursing home beds, closed facilities

Post author:Farrah Anderson / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:January 22, 2024
Post category:Elderly Watch Health Care Public Health Technology

The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District and local group Advocates for Aging Care have launched a survey to help identify the state of senior services…

Read more about the article Needs assessment survey for Champaign County nursing homes begins soon; Facilities facing bed shortage, staffing issues

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CU Nursing and Rehab exterior (302 Burwash Ave, Savoy, IL 61874) on Friday, December 17, 2021. Photo by Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess

Needs assessment survey for Champaign County nursing homes begins soon; Facilities facing bed shortage, staffing issues

Post author:Kayla Henry / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:December 18, 2023
Post category:Health Care

Local advocacy groups and health care facilities have plans to address the shortage of nursing home beds plaguing the Champaign and Urbana area. The…

Read more about the article Elderly Champaign residents mourn the loss of services at Inman; Half of residents leave

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Kenneth Adams and his son Brian Adams at the Windsor of Savoy after he had to move from the Inman Hotel in downtown on Wednesday, November 15, 2023. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Elderly Champaign residents mourn the loss of services at Inman; Half of residents leave

Post author:Farrah Anderson / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:December 18, 2023
Post category:Elderly Watch Health Care Housing

Champaign resident Brian Adams thought he had found the perfect home at Inman Place for his father Kenneth Adams, 91, in 2020. However, when…

Read more about the article Champaign residents warned the county about a nursing home operator. Now, four senior facilities are closed.

Farrah Anderson

Broken furniture and items lay outside the former Champaign County Nursing Home which William “Avi” Rothner purchased in 2018. Photo by Farrah Anderson.