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Board members voted unanimously to annex the Briarcliff and Summit Ridge subdivisions, and land that includes Tin Cup Campground. With an attorney present, Briarcliff homeowners in particular said they don't plan to let the issue end with the village's vote.

By PENNY WEAVERMahomet Citizen

Mitchell J. Snodgrass, 22, faces two counts alleging aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol and one of failure to report an accident involving injury.

URBANA — A Savoy man told police he knew he had hit a bicyclist in northeast Urbana on Monday but "panicked" and took off.

38-year-old Nicholas Trimble, of Urbana, was arrested near Fourth Street and Kirby Avenue in Champaign.

An Urbana man has been arrested in connection to the 2017 murder of two men in Danville.

After more than a year of intense faculty consultation, the Academic Senate on Monday gave overwhelming approval to the institute, on a temporary basis. The vote was 104-3, with three abstentions.

URBANA — When grand plans for a new Chicago-based Discovery Partners Institute were announced in October 2017, it caught many University of Illinois faculty members off guard.

With IDOT safety and sidewalk-widening improvements on the drawing board for the area in front of the Green Street Realty project, Dennis Roberts said he wants to do everything possible to get trees planted, which IDOT isn't planning on doing.

Their job is to finish the race within 30 seconds of the time listed on the placard they are holding during the event.

At Saturday's Christie Clinic Illinois Marathon, 21 runners wearing shirts that read "Joe's Pacers" will stagger themselves throughout the area behind the starting line along with around 5,000 half-marathon and marathon runners and hold up signs affixed to long sticks.

Tonight's sudy session will examine a hole in city code recently exposed when Ebertfest organizers approached the city about sponsoring the film festival.

CHAMPAIGN — When Ebertfest organizers recently approached the city about sponsoring the 21-year-old downtown film festival, they were told it wasn't possible.

In an interview with Capitol News Illinois, state Sen. Heather Steans, D-Chicago, said she hoped to file substantial language 'by the end of April or very early May, if not (Tuesday) April 30.'

By PETER HANCOCKphancock@capitolnewsillinois.com

The utility hasn't shared the results of its ongoing testing of the site of its former manufactured-gas plant with the public since 2016, according to Claudia Lennhoff, executive director of Champaign County Health Care Consumers.

Demetrius Edwards also testified that the Gmail account listed in the ad, which advertised the car, included the name Glen Torres and the contact name Glen.

DANVILLE — An Indianapolis man testified Monday that back in August 2015 when he was trying to start a car-parts salvage business, he paid a man $400 for a blue Chevy Malibu and picked it up at a home on the east side of the city.