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…
Darrell Hoemann/The News-Gazette
in Arcola on Friday, August 24, 2012
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…
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 freshly…
Retired and married for 59 years, Dave, 85, and Florene, 86, find themselves with endless amounts of time on their hands. From volunteering at church activities to dining with close friends to daily walking exercises, the couple continues to remain active within their community to "pass the time away," Florene said. However, on a calm, chilly Thursday, Dave and Florene Smith head over to Tumble Inn Tavern in downtown Champaign in place of their walking routine. Dave orders a Bud Light, and Florene orders a Sprite.
Bud Light and a Sprite, Please
Date Night with Dave and Florene Smith, a short story.
Waffle truck prompts food pilot project, change
By Chad Garland/For CU-CitizenAccess When is an ice cream truck not an ice cream truck? According to Mahomet resident Zach Ware, it’s when it…
Jose Diaz/For CU-CitizenAccess
Residents of mobile homes, like this one at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park in Champaign, account for 43 percent of tornado-related deaths, according to the National Weather Service. The nearest public building that can provide shelter for Shadow Wood residents during a tornado 24 hours a day is Carle Foundation Hospital, located 2 miles away.
Shadow Wood: Storm shelters scarce for local neighborhood
Every time the National Weather Service issues a storm warning, Heidi Zavaleta has to decide where to seek shelter. She can stay at home,…
By Jose Diaz
The Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park has seen many changes during the past two decades, most notably a dramatic increase in its Hispanic population and a reduction in crime.
Shadow Wood: A changing neighborhood
Two years ago, Jose Rodriguez and his three daughters left their home in Ibague, Colombia, a city of about half a million people in the slopes of the Andes Mountains, 80 miles west of Bogota, the capital city, and headed north for Champaign.
What the proposed zoning changes mean to Wilber Heights
Champaign County passed an ordinance in 1973 intending to turn the Wilber Heights neighborhood into a strictly industrial region. The regulation prohibits the rebuilding…