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Jim Roberts of the Champaign-Urbana Health District holds up a sample placard as county board members discussed whether restaurants in the county should be required to display inspection placards on August 21, 2014.

County set to debate whether posting placards will harm restaurants

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Post published: September 12, 2014
Post category:Article Food Public Health

By Claire Everett/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Whether a restaurant in Champaign County should have to tell customers if it failed its health inspection is still up…

Read more about the article Growing up Asian in a white family; one adoptee’s struggle

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Claire Hampton with her mother. Claire was born in Seoul, South Korea and came to the United States when she was four months old.

Growing up Asian in a white family; one adoptee’s struggle

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Post published: September 11, 2014
Post category:Blog Full Page Feaure Neighborhoods

By Earn Saenmuk/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- There was a girl in my Korean class. Well, there were more than one, but this particular one was…

Read more about the article Government looks to counter SNAP recipient fraud

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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is the country’s largest nutrition-support program, last year serving about 47 million Americans at a cost of about $76 billion.

Government looks to counter SNAP recipient fraud

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Post published: September 9, 2014
Post category:Article Poverty

By Robert Holly/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting -- Champaign County has seen a 40 percent increase in the number of households on the federal…

Read more about the article Race makeup of local police staff mirror national trends

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The window for the Urbana Police Department office inside the Urbana City Hall on Thursday, September 4, 2014. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Race makeup of local police staff mirror national trends

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Post published: September 5, 2014
Post category:Blog

The racial makeup of police departments across the country has grown to become a heated national issue after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown – an unarmed black teenager – in Ferguson, Mo., last month. An initial analysis by CU-CitizenAccess.org of local police staff numbers revealed a race gap mirrored in national and regional reports. The staff information was obtained through requests made under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act.

A small community of cyclists in Champaign-Urbana enjoying bike polo. Spring 2014.

Bike friendly Chambana draws new version of polo

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Post published: September 3, 2014
Post category:Blog Full Page Feaure

Champaign-Urbana is a biking town, and as an avid biker, that was something I noticed very quickly upon moving here. Bike lanes run all through both cities as well as campus. Shops like The Bike Co-op and Neutral Cycle provide local cyclists with affordable service and offer to teach people who come in how to maintain a bike themselves, while other stores deal with high-end, professional equipment. People get together to go on group rides.

Students slacklining at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2014

Slackers on a line

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Post published: August 28, 2014
Post category:Blog Full Page Feaure

Klara Debie/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- On one of the first sunny days of spring, I saw some people balancing themselves on a tightrope – or…

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Step by step instruction on financial aid application helps visitors to Shadow Wood lab

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Post published: August 27, 2014
Post category:Blog

Giovanna Olea/For CU-CitizenAccess.org – Giovanna Olea works for CU-CitizenAccess.org as a community ambassador in a computer lab at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park. CU-CitizenAccess.org has opened…

Read more about the article Mold in ice machine, flies in drain among dozens of violations in area restaurants

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Perkins resturant inspection cards on Tuesday, August 19, 2014. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Mold in ice machine, flies in drain among dozens of violations in area restaurants

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Post published: August 23, 2014
Post category:Article Food Public Health

By Claire Everett/CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Meat leaking blood into cases of beer, ice machines with mold and flies in drains were among the critical violations…

Read more about the article Changes to bilingual program in one Champaign school forces some parents to make difficult decision

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Giovanna Olea in the community center in Shadowwood community on Thursday, April 17, 2014. photo by Darrell Hoemann/The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

Changes to bilingual program in one Champaign school forces some parents to make difficult decision

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Post published: August 20, 2014
Post category:Blog

By Giovanna Olea/For CU-CitizenAccess.org – Giovanna Olea works for CU-CitizenAccess.org as a community ambassador in a computer lab at Shadow Wood Mobile Home Park. CU-CitizenAccess.org has…