Weekly RoundUp: Illinois Marathon
On your mark. Get set. Go! Runners in the Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon are set to hit the road this week. Registration is closed…
Danielle Sheppard
Virginia Theatre, 203 W. Park Ave., Champaign, Illinois
Weekly RoundUp: Ebertfest
Ebertfest, film critic Roger Ebert’s annual film festival, begins on Wednesday, April 17th at Champaign’s newly restored Virginia Theatre. Ebert died on April 4th after a…
Danielle Sheppard
Virginia Theatre, 203 W. Park Ave., Champaign, Illinois
Restored Virginia Theatre, 91 years old, holds Champaign’s memories
By Emily Siner / For CU-CitizenAccess.org Leonard Doyle stands by the front window, next to the box office, and looks out. Park Avenue looks…
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, movie palaces and…
Danielle Sheppard
From Left to Right
Ophelia Phillips, Dollie Anderson and Larry Parker participating in a chair exercise class at the Douglas Annex on April 10, 2013
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 of…
Danielle Shepherd
Steve Heiss and Erin Harper/Founders of CU-Garden
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 their idealistic vision…
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…
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 thinking about…
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…
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. An…