6+ hour, 37+ min ago  (324+ words) DANVILLE " Local business owner and Ward 4 Alderwoman Tricia Teague will join what's becoming a crowded field of candidates for Danville mayor in 2027. During a campaign kickoff event at 6 p. m. Monday, Teague will become the third candidate to announce plans to run…...

6+ hour, 54+ min ago  (1177+ words) A tree fell onto a house and car in residential Urbana during Monday night's storms. More than 2, 600 Champaign County residents lost power during the tornado watch. Winds peaked in Gibson City at nearly 60 miles per hour, according to the National…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (574+ words) The respected "gem" of a public information officer and "God's gift to reporters" from the Savoy Fire Department has retired after 50 years of service....

13+ hour, 34+ min ago  (565+ words) A tree fell onto a house and car from Monday night's storms in residential Urbana. More than 2, 600 Champaign County residents and around 23, 000 across the state'lost power during the tornado watch. Winds peaked in Gibson City at nearly 60 miles per hour,…...

14+ hour, 13+ min ago  (375+ words) CHAMPAIGN " Illinois women's tennis coach Evan Clark announced his retirement Tuesday morning after spending 11 seasons leading the Illini. Clark will leave Illinois as the program's all-time winningest coach both with 160 total career victories and 81 in Big Ten play. The Illini…...

19+ hour ago  (955+ words) A town, a railroad station, a train setting off with a young man, a starting place, a beginning. It recedes behind us and vanishes with all those green and gold summer mornings of boyhood, the air smelling like brown sugar,…...

19+ hour ago  (867+ words) The author during the Superior 50 Mile Trail Race ultramarathon in Minnesota back in the day. I don't particularly enjoy running, but I run. I have been running, off and on, since I was a toddler. I ran from my older…...

20+ hour, 15+ min ago  (1123+ words) A conceptual elevation for a new cottage court development planned at 201 and 205 W. Church St. in Savoy. A view from the Champaign County GIS Consortium of zoning districts around 201 and 205 W. Church St. , which developers are proposing to replat into one lot…...

19+ hour ago  (694+ words) CUrbanism Club's Jared Fritz cuts the red tape at the opening of its exhibit, "The Policy of Possibility,' during the Boneyard Arts Festival earlier this month. Earlier this month at the Boneyard Arts Festival, CUrbanism Club opened an exhibit called…...

20+ hour, 15+ min ago  (572+ words) URBANA " The trial for a former University of Illinois police officer accused of sexual assault began Monday. This is the second time Jerald "Jerry" Sandage, 54, of Le Roy, has stood trial for charges that are related but are being handled…...