Despite pledges over the years to diversify the police department, both the Champaign and Urbana police staff have remained overwhelmingly white.
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Black persons were booked at the Champaign County jail at least one and half times more than white persons over an eight-year period, according to a
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Before University of Illinois students were sent home in mid-March due to coronavirus, there were at least 183 crimes in Champaign-Urbana reported di
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The first on-street reactions of the Champaign-Urbana community on the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis were reported on local Facebook groups o
Read MoreFollowing the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police on May 25, protesters gathered at the Market Place Mall on May 31, and 26 people were sub
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As the coronavirus outbreak hit Illinois, many county jails lacked a standard cell needed to isolate infected inmates who had a respiratory illness,
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On November 30, 2015, Toya Frazier was transferred to the Satellite Jail in Champaign County after turning herself in for theft at the courthouse
Read MoreCHAMPAIGN – The wife of a man accused of kidnapping and killing an international student from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign last year ha
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Conversations around gun violence often revolve around long-term solutions, like improving schools or the local economy. But even if those things wer
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