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By Pam G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess -- Just 29 Champaign County eateries ranked in the top scoring health inspections over the past six months, a new CU-CitizenAccess.org…
CU-CitizenAccess.org has won a national investigative journalism award for its collaborative project with Hoy Chicago looking at changing demographics and racial issues in Central…
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…
Danielle Sheppard
By Emily Siner / For CU-CitizenAccess.org Leonard Doyle stands by the front window, next to the box office, and looks out. Park Avenue looks…
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The C-U Immigration Forum organized a candelight vigil and march in Champaign, Ill. this week to show support for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. On Wednesday,…
Danielle Sheppard
By Elise King / For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- A grassroots organization still has concerns about the contaminated groundwater at the toxic site located at the…
Danielle Sheppard
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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By CU-CitizenAccess.org staff Twenty-one restaurants in Champaign County failed health inspections in the last six months, with critical violations ranging from improper storage of…
Dusty Rhodes
Last week, The News-Gazette reported that a Peoria-based construction company was ordered to pay $1.5 million in restitution for falsely claiming it would hire…
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Our collaborative work with Hoy Chicago in last year’s Midwest Chronicles gained high honors recently. The project took a look at the deep demographic…
