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…
On your mark. Get set. Go! Runners in the Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon are set to hit the road this week. Registration is closed…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
While Champaign city officials have been working on redevelopment plans for the Bristol Park area for at least two years, some community members are…
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…
By Pam G. Dempsey / CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Socorro Alvarez can name off each country of origin where the small trinkets of gratitude came from…
There is salsa dance night at Radio Maria and Cowboy Monkey in downtown Champaign. Latino food trucks pepper the landscape across Champaign- Urbana. An…