
Housing authority chair brings insight to new role
By Robert Holly/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Think positive, stay focused and take one day at a time. As a girl, those are the words Margaret…
By Robert Holly/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Think positive, stay focused and take one day at a time. As a girl, those are the words Margaret…
By Andrea Baumgartner/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Champaign and Urbana nonprofits in arts education took a hard hit to funding in 2007 as the great recession…
By Robert Holly/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- For more than a month, community members have waited for the Housing Authority of Champaign County’s board of commissioners…
While Champaign city officials have been working on redevelopment plans for the Bristol Park area for at least two years, some community members are…
By Pam G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess - For journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a driver’s license meant working for the Washington Post - a job he really…
By Pam G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess -- Over the past decade there has been a deep demographic shift in Central Illinois as the population of Hispanics and…
By Azra Halilovic /CU-CitizenAccess.org / Hoy -- Last December, the CU-Immigration Forum held a public meeting at the Champaign Public Library to discuss the…
By Sean Powers /Illinois Public Media -- Angelina Lopez, 47, is a single mother in central Illinois who came into the U.S. illegally 10…
This project was hatched over Thai food at the YMCA in Champaign between the journalists from Hoy-Chicago and CU-CitizenAccess.org. Hoy had been thinking about…
By Jeff Kelly Lowenstein/Hoy -- Rantoul is a town with a proud military heritage. You see it on the name “Veterans Parkway” and the…