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Champaign community kicks off summer at Hessel Park
WCIA Champaign via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Summer unofficially started on Memorial Day with food, fun and great weather at Champaign’s Hessel Park. Hundreds of families...
Summer Concert Series returns to Champaign
WCIA Champaign via Yahoo News· 1 month agoCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — The Champaign Park District is back with their summer concert series. The Edison Middle School Band will be performing in Hessel...
‘Nothing has worked;’ Champaign Co. election officials speak on judge shortage, polling place...
WCIA Champaign via Yahoo News· 3 months agoCHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Champaign County is experiencing a shortage of election judges, and the...
Champaign man gets 5 years for having gun after bullet goes into downstairs neighbor's apartment
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFeb. 24—URBANA — A Champaign man who admitted having a gun he was not legally entitled to have has been sentenced to five years in prison. Rolan Jones, 25, who listed an address in the 200 block ...
Tom Kacich: Who votes down a playground tax? Champaign did 100 years ago
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoMay 26—In the spring of 1924, everyone seemed to agree: Champaign needed more parks and playgrounds. The growing city, whose population nearly doubled between 1900 and 1920 (and would more than ...
From diehards to casual players, C-U's pickleball boom runs the gamut
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo Sports· 10 months agoAug. 13—CHAMPAIGN — Had he known what he knows now, Levi Algozino might've been intimidated by the two older women who stepped onto a pickleball court across from him during a vacation in Michigan ...
Kathy's #Mailbag, Sept. 15, 2023
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSep. 15—What was there before Sweet Basil Cafe? Who's going to clean up the Dart property in Urbana? Why is the I-57/74 project taking so long? When is artwork coming back to Champaign's Porter ...
Former Unity school board member pleads guilty to public indecency
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill.· 1 year agoJun. 7—URBANA — The former president of the Unity school board will be able to escape a conviction as a result of a negotiated guilty plea he entered Wednesday. Frederick Koss, 71, of rural ...
CUSF award winners served aces long after winning tennis title
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 5—CHAMPAIGN — Eventually, Anna Jain Bakst and Avra Jain would embark on impressive careers with diverse lines on their resumes. Anna has been an engineer at IBM, editor of a fine-arts magazine ...
Mahomet RV park owner planning unique addition to his hometown
The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. via Yahoo Sports· 11 months agoJul. 30—MAHOMET — The large picture window in Quentin McNew's apartment just upstairs from the main office of Tin Cup RV Park looks out onto large grassy fields, a narrow road, some small buildings ...