
‘It’s amazing they function at all’: social security recipients and workers brace for cuts
For Kiel Hodges, replacing a lost Social Security card has turned into a five-week ordeal with three office visits. "I need it to get…
For Kiel Hodges, replacing a lost Social Security card has turned into a five-week ordeal with three office visits. "I need it to get…
“Hands off” was the message shared by hundreds in Champaign calling on the federal government to halt funding cuts to essential services across the…
Nearly 4,000 applications for tenant-based housing vouchers have been filed in Champaign County over the last seven months, but none have been processed and…
Whooping cough, rabies, syphilis and strep. These are some of the infectious diseases on the rise in Champaign County over the past six years,…
Richard Sexton, a man from Effingham who has been receiving disability benefits, said last week that his Social Security account and his retired wife's…
Wendy Dorman is the recipient of a NASA early career researcher grant to create a detailed grasslands map in Illinois to improve wildlife, agricultural…
Head Start, an early childhood education program, hosts about 500 students a year with a budget of at least $9.1 million in federal funding…
Numerous abandoned buildings still sit on the 2,125 acres of the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. Some are boarded up —…
Last week, Peter Goldsmith, the executive director of the Soybean Innovation Lab, announced the lab will shut down in April as the U.S. Agency…
Some clients of the Greater Community Aids Project of East Illinois said they have been stranded and mistreated during the past year by Mass…