Champaign County | featured news

The Sidney Lu Mechanical Engineering Building is one of several naming actions up for approval at the trustees' meeting today in Springfield, including the proposed Grainger College of Engineering.

We're proud to introduce the recipient of our annual News-Gazette Farm Leader Scholarship: St. Joseph-Ogden grad and University of Illinois sophomore Allie Place.

Today is Thursday, May 16, 2019. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1919, the Illinois Knights of Columbus announced it would hold its state convention in Champaign.
read more

Today is Thursday, May 16, the 136th day of 2019. There are 229 days left in the year.
Today's highlight
On May 16, 1966, China launched the Cultural Revolution, a radical as well as deadly reform movement aimed at purging the country of "counter-revolutionaries."
On this date
read more

At Wednesday night's meeting, trustees appointed Erik Johnson to succeed the retiring David Leake as director of the William M. Staerkel Planetarium, effective Aug. 12.

CHAMPAIGN — Parkland College is staying in-house to replace one of its star faculty members.

A Macon County judge on Tuesday arraigned the 15-year-old on three misdemeanor charges of unlawful possession of ammunition, resisting a peace officer and harassment by electronic communication after his arrest Monday at the school.

URBANA — One of the earliest musical works for a computer, "HPSCHD," produced by University of Illinois Professor and composer John Cage, will be presented from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Analog Cafe, 129 N. Race Road, U.
The free performance by artist/producer Gary Pini marks the 50th anniversary of the piece's premiere on May 16, 1969, at the Assembly Hall.
read more

Michael Ujcich, Courage Connection's development and outreach director, said the agency is closing Connections to focus on its mission, which is providing services for survivors of domestic violence.

URBANA — Connections, the resale store operated by Courage Connection at Lincoln Square, will close June 30, the agency said.

Daniel Sagan, 22, pleaded guilty in March to possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, admitting that in October 2017, he had between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine in his campus apartment on John Street that he intended to sell.

Curtis Hairston, 43, of Champaign was sentenced for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a child who was under the age of 13 when she was molested in 2017.

URBANA — A Champaign man convicted of sexually molesting a young girl will spend what amounts to the rest of his life behind bars.