Champaign News

CHAMPAIGN – For 130 years, the magnificent Metropolitan Building stood at the corner of Church and Neil streets.

CHAMPAIGN – A portion of Clover Lane will be closed for two weeks for sanitary sewer work.

CHAMPAIGN – Hours at the Station 'A' post office at 302 E. Green St., C, will be reduced Dec.

CHAMPAIGN – A Champaign father whose 5-year-old son has cerebral palsy is selling his artwork to raise funds for special equipment for his son.

The former head of the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District has been indicted on theft and official misconduct charges.

CHAMPAIGN – A Champaign man was treated for injuries he suffered in a traffic accident in northwest Champaign about 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

Wistful "write soon" phrases have kept two women connected across the Atlantic Ocean for 52 years.

SAVOY – The new owner of the Carle Arbours continuing care center has renamed it the Champaign-Urbana Regional Rehab Center.

URBANA – Kim Shackelford has a hard time believing three years have passed since her parents were stabbed and bludgeoned to death in their Champaign home.

The University of Illinois invites agriculturalists to the 2009 AgMasters Conference , which will take place December 1 and 2 at the I Hotel and Conference Center, Champaign, Illinois.

CHAMPAIGN – The Burger King on North Prospect Avenue in Champaign won't re-open until inspections by city and public health officials following a Tuesday afternoon fire.

Illinois State Police found 1,455 pounds of marijuana inside a rental truck that was pulled over in rural Champaign.

URBANA – Champaign County Democrats don't have candidates for any of four countywide seats up for election next year, but they have three candidates for two seats in one county board district and four candidates for two spots in another.

CHAMPAIGN – Brilliant, dedicated, entertaining and eccentric: Friends say Gary Wright, regarded as one of the Champaign Police Department's most talented detectives, was all those and more.

CHAMPAIGN – Changes in the advertising business helped lead to the demise of the Ad Club of Champaign-Urbana. The decades-old club – most recently known as the American Advertising Federation of Central Illinois – dismantled itself at summer's end after not getting enough volunteers.

A Champaign man Saturday was charged with retail theft for trying to return some men's ties he allegedly had just taken from a store rack and placed in a bag.

URBANA – The man already convicted of murdering Jerry Haigh in his Champaign home three years ago told a jury hearing co-defendant Crystal Myrick's case that she took an active role in killing Sue Haigh.

As of 12:30 a.m. Saturday two people are in custody, a third individual was still being sought on foot following a wild vehicle pursuit in Champaign County shortly before midnight.

Oh ... well, I guess he didn't. Police were called around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to the 100 block of Munroe Street where a 37-year-old man said he had been robbed.

CHAMPAIGN – Teachers, staff and administrators need to look 'very, very critically' at the draft plans for a new Washington Elementary School to ensure the design will meet the school's needs, said Champaign school board member Kristine Chalifoux.