Champaign Unit 4 is seeking $192 million for a proposed school building referendum, but officials say the district could overspend again.

Champaign Unit 4 proposes significant improvements with a $192 million bond, up for vote Nov. 3. Find out what is at stake for local schools.

Urbana is enacting initiatives to transform Philo Road, including grants and community programs aimed at revitalizing the area.

In 2009, the City of Champaign began approving a wave of high rises that added more than 2,000 beds to the Campustown area over the next nine years. By 2018, the city realized it had so overburdened ...

Wendy Dorman is the recipient of a NASA early career researcher grant to create a detailed grasslands map in Illinois to improve wildlife, agricultural and environmental understanding. Despite farmer ...

In the past eight years, Champaign and Urbana witnessed a steep hike in gun violence and then a swift decline after 2021 — but the shootings still haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels. The biggest ...

In the last 11 years, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) has racked up at least $51.9 million in fines for 90 federal- and state-level offenses and violations in the United States. The numbers come from ...

In 2023, 13 property owners in Champaign County owned over 100 properties each. The largest property owner, by far, is the University of Illinois Board of Trustees, with at least 400 properties and a ...

The Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) facility in Decatur, which processes grain products into food ingredients and ethanol, released 2.7 million pounds of toxic chemicals in 2022, including one that can ...

First it was County Market in 2016. Next it was Family Video in 2021 and Burger King in 2024. Soon after, Walgreens, CVS and Family Dollar closed their doors for good in 2025. In the last nine years, ...

Over the past five years, federal workplace safety officials inspected about 1,800 roofing contractors in Illinois. But a CU-CitizenAccess review found no state records that showed that 1,200 of those ...