Champaign County | featured news

Safety-related drainage issues at Robeson Elementary helped give rise to their discontent.

CHAMPAIGN — Work a job. Raise children. Join the PTA. Then, find the time to raise up to $100,000 for a new school playground.

Today is Monday, June 10, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, the Overland Automobile Company was reportedly considering Champaign for an automobile assembling plant.
read more

Today is Monday, June 10, the 161st day of 2019. There are 204 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On June 10, 1967, six days of war in the Mideast involving Israel, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Iraq ended as Israel and Syria accepted a United Nations-mediated cease-fire.
On this date
read more

A pair of up-and-coming University of Illinois journalists are spending their summer getting some hands-on training with News-Gazette Media.

A pair of up-and-coming University of Illinois journalists are spending their summer getting some hands-on training with News-Gazette Media.

It was started in a trash receptacle, police say, and extended into the building's electric meter bank.

CHAMPAIGN — The Champaign Police Department has begun investigating a late Saturday night fire after Champaign Fire Department investigators determined the cause was incendiary.
No arrests were reported as of Sunday.

Perpetrators suspected in thefts Thursday from both Macy's and Meijer in Champaign.

CHAMPAIGN — Champaign County Crime Stoppers asks the public to help identify two people who shoplifted Thursday in Champaign.

On Saturday, Danville High School student Peyton Hile, 16, was at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., for the academy's highly competitive Summer Seminar program.

When Peyton Hile was in middle school in Danville, she and big brother Noah tagged along with their dad to a teachers' conference in the nation's capital.
One of their stops: the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

Today is Sunday, June 9, the 160th day of 2019. There are 205 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On June 9, 1954, during the Senate Army-McCarthy hearings, Army special counsel Joseph N. Welch berated Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., asking: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
read more

Today is Sunday, June 9, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, the University Republican Club voted to endorse W.B. McKinley for the U.S. Senate.
In 1969, sales got under way for tickets for the Fighting Illini football team under head coach Jim Valek.
read more

Before he died in 2006, Will wished there was one at the Urbana hospital, because he liked being out in the open.

URBANA — It's been more than a decade since Melissa and John Tate lost their 13-year-old son, Will, to leukemia, but they can still recall the effect that a rooftop garden at a St. Louis hospital had on him and the rest of the family.