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…
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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…
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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…
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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.