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Pothole repair requests appearing at residential addresses. Mapping software preventing reports within the city. Anonymous reports limiting city follow-up to resolve reported issues. These…
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Almost one year after promising to bring Head Start services to hundreds more children across rural east central Illinois, the Champaign County Regional Planning…
Michael Sweeney
Emulsicoat Inc., an asphalt production plant in Urbana, promised residents to relocate most of its operations out of their neighborhood to reduce the irritating…
This past June, Ameren Illinois increased its summer electricity supply rates from 8 cents per kilowatt-hour to 12, projecting bills to increase from 10%…
Darrell Hoemann
To the surprise of its customers, Republic Services — a North American solid waste collection company with services in Champaign-Urbana — silently increased its…
Dylan Tiger
A lawsuit filed by the City of Champaign against the out-of-town owner of run-down apartment buildings remains unresolved heading into 2026. Champaign has been…
Patrick Mahoney
Site cleanup and soil work are part of the environmental work required to develop a new eight-building apartment complex on the site of the…
Champaign County’s Opioid Settlement Task Force approved about $161,000 in new spending this week toward emergency medical equipment for fire protection districts across the…
Without notice to the public, the Urbana Open Data Portal was shut down after nearly 10 years of service. Urbana residents and the general…
Mike Rock
The Safety Lighting Energy Efficiency Program (SLEEP), originally designed to improve outdoor lighting and security in the Garden Hills neighborhood in 2019, got new…