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Last school year, 58% of grades were top marks — with even more in online classes

Staff writer Paul Wood chats with Champaign attorney Julie King, who is a fan of the Rolling Stones and enjoys studying medieval England.

Each week, we offer a Q&A with a local personality. Today, Champaign attorney JULIE KING, 48, chats with staff writer Paul Wood. King is a fan of the Rolling Stones and also enjoys studying medieval England.

In 1919, the Champaign Daily Gazette (which seven months later would be out of business) already had cause to decry that the day of remembrance was seemingly becoming another day of commercialism.

Betty Brown, 92, of Prairie Winds, Urbana, has stories to tell from her time working at the Urbana Lincoln hotel during its glory days.

The A-1 picture of Urbana's Landmark Hotel on May 17 caught Betty Brown's eye.
"I cut it out the minute I saw it," the 92-year-old resident of Prairie Winds of Urbana said.

Today is Sunday, May 26, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, a capacity crowd was expected at the University of Illinois Auditorium to hear Joseph Bonnet, an award-winning organist from Paris, perform in concert.
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Today is Sunday, May 26, the 146th day of 2019. There are 219 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On May 26, 1972, President Richard M. Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in Moscow. (The U.S. withdrew from the treaty in 2002.)
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Urbana High School honored the Class of 2019 during a Commencement ceremony at State Farm Center in Champaign on Saturday, May 25, 2019.

'Nobody wants to use a dirty restroom. We've all done it, and it's a terrible experience.'

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Lucas Seilhymer, 28, will succeed Rickey Williams Jr., who resigned the post after he was elected Danville mayor in April.

DANVILLE — One local social-service agency has wrapped up its search for a new leader, while another agency will be launching one.
Project Success of Vermilion County board members on Friday introduced Lucas Seilhymer as the nonprofit youth organization's new CEO.

The committee said nearly a quarter of Champaign County's population is already 55 or older, and nearly 8 percent of those over 65 are living below the federal poverty level of less than $12,490 a year for a one-person household.