Several months after addressing increasing gun violence in a community update, a new report on hiring reveals the Champaign police force is understaf
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The Champaign Park District is well known for their spring and summer planting of beds of flowers across various parks in the Champaign County area.
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In 2014, in the midst of a gubernatorial election, the construction of a $1.4 billion fertilizer plant in Tuscola was announced with much fanfare and
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In October 2014, state and local officials and Cronus Chemicals CEO Erzin Atac donned hard hats in an empty farm field to announce a deal to bring a $
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Sarah Soenke/For CU-CitizenAccess.org— Champaign County small business development is still struggling under setbacks from the Great Recession and hav
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Last week, The News-Gazette reported that a Peoria-based construction company was ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution for falsely claiming it w
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By Robert Holly/For CU-CitizenAccess The Housing Authority of Champaign County recently joined the Moving to Work program in an effort to increase
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By Staff/CU-CitizenAccess.org President Obama called for an increase in the minimum wage in his State of the Union address. He proposed raising the
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By Britney Clapp / For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Since 2008, the U.S. economy has taken a downfall, and many businesses have been forced to close. Fortu
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By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy -- Rantoul is a town with a proud military heritage. You see it on the name “Veterans Parkway” and the series of red,
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