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CU-CitizenAccess.org – Watchdog news & community issues Watchdog news & community issues HomeContact Us Latest News Agriculture Business Food Jobs Environment Health Care Housing Neighborhoods Technology Government Education Justice Public Funds Public Health CU COVID-19 Transportation Data, Maps and Visualizations Search Champaign County Property By Name Government Salary Guide Freedom of Information Guides Toggle website search Menu Close Home Latest NewsApps, Maps and Visualization Freedom of Information Guides Contact Us Home Champaign’s vacant properties can languish for years without correction; Fines increased in past two years Kiran Bond / For CU-CitizenAccess / April 23, 2024 Seven07 pipe burst displaces residents Gwyn Skiles / For CU-CitizenAccess / March 27, 2024 Over one year later, no detached housing built following Champaign ordinance Zeno Jo / For CU-CitizenAccess and Nour Longi / For CU-CitizenAccess / March 4, 2024CU-CitizenAccess is an online newsroom devoted to community and watchdog reporting by journalism students at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. The newsroom focuses mostly on Champaign County and central Illinois, but produces occasional regional, national and international stories. Facebook Twitter Youtube Support Local Media. Donate Today. NEW TOOL: Click here to search Champaign County property by owner name — a feature removed by county officials Latest News Champaign County doesn’t allow looking up property by name. We made it searchable again. February 13, 2024 | CU-CitizenAccess.org | Champaign bars, liquor stores failed 25% of underage compliance checks by Illinois Liquor Control Commission last year February 13, 2024 | Stephanie Wayda / For CU-CitizenAccess and Farrah Anderson / For CU-CitizenAccess | After fatal shootings, Rantoul police recommended more training. They just sent one officer to a gun range February 9, 2024 | Farrah Anderson, Invisible Institute/Illinois Public Media | Champaign hired Police Chief Timothy Tyler despite disciplinary past and allegations of misconduct February 1, 2024 | Farrah Anderson and Sam Stecklow, Invisible Institute | Complaints about yard waste and housing in disrepair continue to rise in Urbana; Property inspections behind schedule goal February 29, 2024 By Michal Szczepaniak / For CU-CitizenAccess and Gwyn Skiles / For CU-CitizenAccess Rental property and nuisance complaints have soared in Urbana over the past few years, records show. The records, obtained via Freedom of Information Act Request, show a total of 1,002 complaints were... Neighborhoods Champaign’s vacant properties can languish for years without correction; Fines increased in past two years April 23, 2024 | By Kiran Bond / For CU-CitizenAccess | Building paint is peeling, junk litters the property and no trespassing” signs sporadically adorn fences surrounding the approximately 330,000 square feet of property of the mostly vacant C.S. Johnson factory in Champaign. ... Read More Seven07 pipe burst displaces residents March 27, 2024 | By Gwyn Skiles / For CU-CitizenAccess | The night Monica Milanowski returned to her apartment at Seven07, a 14-story high-rise in Champaign, after going home for winter break in January, her apartment was flooded with four to six inches... Read More Over one year later, no detached housing built following Champaign ordinance March 4, 2024 | By Zeno Jo / For CU-CitizenAccess and Nour Longi / For CU-CitizenAccess | Some residents expressed concern about a negative impact on neighborhoods when the city of Champaign passed a June 2022 ordinance to build additional, detached housing on their properties. But over one year... Read More Neighborhoods Champaign’s vacant properties can languish for years without correction; Fines increased in past two years April 23, 2024 | Kiran Bond / For CU-CitizenAccess | Building paint is peeling, junk litters the property and no trespassing” signs sporadically adorn fences surrounding the approximately 330,000 square feet of property of the mostly vacant C.S. Johnson factory in Champaign. ... Read More Seven07 pipe burst displaces residents March 27, 2024 | Gwyn Skiles / For CU-CitizenAccess | The night Monica Milanowski returned to her apartment at Seven07, a 14-story high-rise in Champaign, after going home for winter break in January, her apartment was flooded with four to six inches... Read More Over one year later, no detached housing built following Champaign ordinance March 4, 2024 | Zeno Jo / For CU-CitizenAccess and Nour Longi / For CU-CitizenAccess | Some residents expressed concern about a negative impact on neighborhoods when the city of Champaign passed a June 2022 ordinance to build additional, detached housing on their properties. But over one year... Read More Recent News Champaign bars, liquor stores failed 25% of underage compliance checks by Illinois Liquor Control Commission last year February 13, 2024 Stephanie Wayda / For CU-CitizenAccess and Farrah Anderson / For CU-CitizenAccess The state of Illinois Liquor Control Commission has made enforcing and documenting underage drinking on its website a priority since 2021 — and enforcement of liquor laws at... Read More After fatal shootings, Rantoul police recommended more training. They just sent one officer to a gun range February 9, 2024 Farrah Anderson, Invisible Institute/Illinois Public Media This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign County between the Champaign-Urbana Civic Police Data Project of the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit public accountability journalism... Read More Champaign hired Police Chief Timothy Tyler despite disciplinary past and allegations of misconduct February 1, 2024 Farrah Anderson and Sam Stecklow, Invisible Institute This article originally appeared on IPM Newsroom on January 29, 2024. This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign County between the Champaign-Urbana... Read More Illinois sees exit of firearm dealers despite all-time high in gun ownership January 24, 2024 Melissa Kuhl / For CU-CitizenAccess Despite an all-time high in the number of Illinois residents possessing a firearm ownership card, the number of gun dealers and businesses registering guns throughout the state has... Read More Health district launches survey on elder care amid deficit of nursing home beds, closed facilities January 22, 2024 Farrah Anderson / For CU-CitizenAccess The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District and local group Advocates for Aging Care have launched a survey to help identify the state of senior services in Champaign County. Champaign... Read More These Champaign County restaurants failed health inspections in 2023 January 10, 2024 CU-CitizenAccess.org Last year, as of late November, 10 restaurants in Champaign County were closed and received a red placard because of failed health inspections. But 75 failed an inspection... Read More Justice After fatal shootings, Rantoul police recommended more training. They just sent one officer to a gun range February 9, 2024 Farrah Anderson, Invisible Institute/Illinois Public Media This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign County between the Champaign-Urbana Civic Police Data Project of the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit public accountability journalism organization, and IPM... Champaign hired Police Chief Timothy Tyler despite disciplinary past and allegations of misconduct February 1, 2024 Farrah Anderson and Sam Stecklow, Invisible Institute This article originally appeared on IPM Newsroom on January 29, 2024. This story is part of a partnership focusing on police misconduct in Champaign County between the Champaign-Urbana Civic Police... Accidents and emergency calls mount at Archer Daniels Midland plants in Decatur in past year; Employee dies in rail accident, multiple employees injured in explosions January 4, 2024 Nour Longi / For CU-CitizenAccess and Madison...