News across Greater Champaign
McKinley Health Center unveils new optometry services
McKinley Health Center launched new optometry services this semester, including eye exams, contact lens fittings, prescription updates and numerous other forms of optometric care. Appointments are offered to students at no extra cost. The initiative also included the addition of…
Paxton woman pleads guilty to burglary, set to be sentenced in November
PAXTON — A Paxton woman pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary in two separate cases involving the theft of power tools from a Gibson City store on Tuesday, Sept. 15, and faces a potential prison term when sentenced in Ford County Circuit Court this fall. As part of a…
Attorney General Raoul Charges Champaign Co Man with Possession, Dissemination of Child Sexual Abuse Material
THE FOLLOWING RELEASE IS FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL RAOUL'S OFFICE Chicago - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today charged an Urbana, Illinois man with...
Schweizer to Host Medicare 101 Seminars in Savoy and Danville in Late September
THE FOLLOWING RELEASE IS FROM STATE REP BRANDUN SCHWEIZER'S OFFICE DANVILLE, IL... State Representative Brandun Schweizer (R-Danville) is annou...
Campus Scout | Cashless cover is ridiculous
Campus Scout is NOT HAPPY. Sorry for the aggressive introduction, folks, but Scout is really frustrated about this one. Scout was originally going to have a much milder introduction to this article, probably something like the following paragraph. “Hello, folks! Scout is here to…
GREENLIGHTED
PAXTON — The Paxton City Council took steps Tuesday, Sept. 8, to make way for a community solar project on yet-to-be-annexed farmland between the Colmac Coil manufacturing plant and Interstate 57. Following a series of public hearings, the council voted unanimously to approve an…
City offering $1,000, $2,000 grants to residents affected by August flooding
PAXTON — Paxton residents who had flood damage last month and completed damage assessment surveys are eligible to apply for grants of up to $1,000 or $2,000 from the city — varying based on income level — to help cover costs of remedial work, including the replacement of ruined…
Leases for three farms terminated by county
PAXTON — The Ford County Board approved the hiring of a Gibson City farmer Monday night to harvest crops on all three county-owned farms this fall after the county’s tenant farmer failed to make payments due and defaulted on his cash-rent leases, which were terminated late last…
Former dental office eyed for probation offices
PAXTON — A former dental office in downtown Paxton could become the temporary new home of Ford County’s probation department, whose officers have been working remotely ever since their courthouse basement offices were flooded in August. Jennifer Harrison, the probation…
With swimming pool losing water ‘for years,’ measures to be taken
PAXTON — The Paxton Park District’s Board of Commissioners on Tuesday, Sept. 8, tabled its approval of hiring a professional leak inspection and detection service to look for leaks in the system and lines at the public swimming pool at Coady Park. The board’s president, Craig…
EMPOWERING PEOPLE
PAXTON — Robert Spicer was in his first week as a teacher at Chicago’s Sojourner Truth Elementary School in the infamous Cabrini Green neighborhood — a region well known for its crime and neglect. Fresh out of Morehouse College, Spicer had been told by his peers at Sojourner that…
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Sept. 16, the 259th day of 2026. There are 106 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 16, 1893, the largest land run in U.S. history occurred as more than 100,000 white settlers rushed to claim over more than 6 million acres of land in what is now…