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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
