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,
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Read MoreThis 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
Read MoreBy Pam G. Dempsey / CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Socorro Alvarez can name off each country of origin where the small trinkets of gratitude came from
Read MoreThere is salsa dance night at Radio Maria and Cowboy Monkey in downtown Champaign. Latino food trucks pepper the landscape across Champaign- Urbana
Read MoreBy 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
Read MoreBy Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy -- As a young girl in Sorsogon Province in the Philippines, in between the twice-daily purchase and preparation of freshl
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