14 restaurants fail health inspections in June and July
These are the 14 restaurants that failed health inspections in June and July, according to Champaign-Urbana Public Health District inspection reports for June and…
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A worker picks up eggs from a refrigerated cooler on Friday, Aug. 31, 2012, at Meatheads Restaurant on South Neil Street in Champaign.
Health district makes moves toward online restaurant reports; publicizing results still under discussion
After spending four years discussing how to best publicize restaurant inspections, county public health officials are now offering Champaign diners a small appetizer of…
File photo. Students on campus in August 2015. Today, more college students are in need for mental health services.
College counseling centers face ‘perfect storm’, expert says
By Pam G. Dempsey/Investigative Journalism Education Consortium -- More than 20 million college students across the nation will start school this month, just weeks…
Village opposed to rezoning Jones building
By Matt Daniels/Rantoul Press assistant editor/ The village of Rantoul is likely to protest a request for a zoning change on a piece of property…
Zero Percent uses social media to eliminate food waste
By Michelle Hagopian/For CU-CitizenAccess -- Want to help eliminate food waste? There's an app for that. Zero Percent, a project started early last year by…
Growing Local: Rise in farmers’ markets, community gardens fuel economy, discussion and needs
Approximately 95 percent of the food we eat in Illinois comes from someplace else. The farmland in Illinois is some of the richest in…
Waffle truck prompts food pilot project, change
By Chad Garland/For CU-CitizenAccess When is an ice cream truck not an ice cream truck? According to Mahomet resident Zach Ware, it’s when it…
City, housing authority grapple over public housing
Over the past decade, communities across the country have demolished or sold hundreds of thousands of public housing units. Danville is aiming to be such a community.
Future of public housing in Danville remains uncertain
Over the past decade, communities across the country have demolished or sold hundreds of thousands of public housing units. Danville is aiming to be…
Latitude News: As jobs go overseas, foreign jobs come here – just not enough
Jobs, jobs, jobs. That’s been the national mantra since the Great Recession hit in 2008, and it does not seem to be going anywhere.…