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Looking south to the Champaign Police Department Building on First Street. Photo by Darrell Hoemann/CU-CitizenAccess

Champaign and Urbana shootings fall since 2021 peak; cities pondering what preventive programs worked

Post author:Andrew Prozorovsky / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:September 25, 2023
Post category:Government Neighborhoods

In the past eight years, Champaign and Urbana witnessed a steep hike in gun violence and then a swift decline after 2021 — but…

Read more about the article Residents complain about continuing early morning garbage pick-ups, but cities fail to find remedies

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Republic Services Waste Transfer at 921 Saline Ct, Urbana. Image from Google Maps Street View.

Residents complain about continuing early morning garbage pick-ups, but cities fail to find remedies

Post author:Andrew Prozorovsky / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:August 29, 2023
Post category:Environment Government Neighborhoods

https://youtu.be/1yeXSeADVVE Video captured by Kate Maguire. Loud booming and crashing sounds of waste hauler trucks emptying bins can start before dawn in Urbana —…

Read more about the article Champaign, Urbana intervening to combat American Water’s request to raise rates for residential customers

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Illinois American Water in Urbana at 1406 W Cardinal Court.

Champaign, Urbana intervening to combat American Water’s request to raise rates for residential customers

Post author:Luis Velazquez / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:April 20, 2022
Post category:Government Housing Neighborhoods

The mayors of the cities of Champaign and Urbana say the cities are filing documents to intervene in the efforts of Illinois American Water…

Underage drinking citations from 2015 through November 2021 in Urbana, IL.

Urbana police stop giving out fines for underage drinking at bars during pandemic

Post author:Erica Floss-Becker / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:January 19, 2022
Post category:Government Justice Public Funds

Like the City of Champaign, Urbana issued no underage drinking citations or made any arrests last year through November 2021, according to police data…

Read more about the article Results of defunct Urbana Community Alternative Policing program a mystery; racial disparity reports no longer accessible

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, the site where Urbana Community Alternative Policing committee meetings were held.

Results of defunct Urbana Community Alternative Policing program a mystery; racial disparity reports no longer accessible

Post author:Jenni Kallenback / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:December 22, 2021
Post category:Government Justice Neighborhoods

UCAP was intended to be a catalyst for the community policing program. It no longer exists and there doesn’t seem to be a community policing program for northern Urbana, north of W. University Avenue and west of N. Broadway Avenue, or any other part of Urbana.

Read more about the article University of Illinois sees spike in faculty, staff, and grad student COVID-19 cases as county battles ‘uncontrolled spread’

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COVID-19 testing takes place on the University of Illinois Quad in Urbana, IL on Wednesday, September 16, 2020.

University of Illinois sees spike in faculty, staff, and grad student COVID-19 cases as county battles ‘uncontrolled spread’

Post author:Raleigh Butler / For CU-CitizenAccess and Gavin Good / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:November 16, 2020
Post category:CU-Covid19

Cases and deaths have been rising in Champaign County and the other 20 counties that make up what the state public health officials designate as Region 6, which covers East central Illinois. The county is also on a state alert because of the rate of infection, 471 cases per 100,000, which nine times the target rate of 50 cases per 100,000.