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April 10, 20130

Sidebar: Old theatres and opera houses in Champaign

By Emily Siner / For CU-CitizenAccess.org From the late 1800s to late 1900s, Champaign-Urbana was home to at least a dozen different opera houses,

April 8, 20130

Last years can be the best, says Douglass Seniors president

By Emily Siner/ For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Irene Phillips doesn’t do things half-heartedly. She doesn’t just sing in her church choir – she’s one

Steve Heiss and Erin Harper/Founders of CU-Garden

March 13, 20130

Frustration grows with community garden’s lack of water

By Emily Siner/For CU-CitizenAccess.org After three years and $7,000 spent, founders of a nearly completed community garden in Douglass Park say th

November 1, 20120

Slideshow: Bristol Place Speaks

While Champaign city officials have been working on redevelopment plans for the Bristol Park area for at least two years, some community members are c

October 19, 20120

Midwest Chronicles: Downstate Diversity Flourishes

This project was hatched over Thai food at the YMCA in Champaign between the journalists from Hoy-Chicago and CU-CitizenAccess.org. Hoy had been th

October 18, 20120

Latino services director helps connect families to community

By Pam G. Dempsey / CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Socorro Alvarez can name off each country of origin where the small trinkets of gratitude came from

October 18, 20120

Hispanic numbers double over the decade

There is salsa dance night at Radio Maria and Cowboy Monkey in downtown Champaign. Latino food trucks pepper the landscape across Champaign- Urbana

October 18, 20120

From Mexico to Arcola, with love

By Azra Halilovic / CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy-- It was 40 years ago that 7-year-old Herlinda Kauffman squeezed into a brown Chevy Impala in Mexico wi

October 5, 20120

Lilia Peters – mother of the Champaign’s Filipino community

By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy -- As a young girl in Sorsogon Province in the Philippines, in between the twice-daily purchase and preparation of freshl

September 26, 20120

Bud Light and a Sprite, Please

Date Night with Dave and Florene Smith, a short story.

Category: Neighborhoods