The district is seeking a hike of 1.6 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, which would raise the property taxes of a home valued at $100,000 by $5.33 a year.
URBANA — Chef Soohwa Yu has been serving carp at University of Illinois dining halls for a few years.
URBANA — After more than a decade of activism, the University of Illinois is committing to divesting its investments in fossil fuels.
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People come to the William M. Staerkel Planetarium at Parkland College to see the wonders of the universe.
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Resilient net-zero-energy homes and buildings are what we should be educating people about and encouraging them to build, Urbana developer Debbie Insana says ahead of Saturday's annual Illinois Solar Tour.
A daily question for the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District's Julie Pryde
Is adopt-a-drain still a thing in Champaign?
As some 30,000 firefighters continued to battle close to 100 major blazes across 13 western states, we invited back the UI's Harry E. Preble Professor of Atmospheric Science for a checkup on the climate.
In June, I welcomed new gardeners and offered suggestions of some flowering native perennials for adding to your gardens.
So many of you have found peace, restoration and strength this year by visiting a Champaign County forest preserve and feeling the wind, hearing birdsong and enjoying all the benefits of nature.
Piatt County Master Gardeners doing good things - in many ways - for the community.
CHAMPAIGN — When the $20.1 million Solar Farm 2.0 goes onlinenext year, the University of Illinois said it will more than double the amount of solar energy it produces.
EDP Renewables has finished construction on the 200-megawatt project, and its 48 turbines are now fully operational, it said in a release Thursday.
Nearly 9,000 visits were made to Busey Woods — adjacent to the Anita Purves Nature Center in Urbana — last month alone. After three months of staying home, it makes sense that so many people are turning to nature in their free time.
I don’t know what drew my eyes to a mulberry sapling in my corner meadow, but I stepped out of the house and saw a brown bulging in the tree.
MAHOMET — The Champaign County Forest Preserve District has purchased about 93 wooded acres along the Sangamon River that were once part of the 200-acre Hidden River mansion development.
The gardens, which were not planted last year while the urban farming venture was in transition, are on their way this year to turning out potatoes, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and other produce to be given away to those in need.
The gift will help the Don Moyer Boys & Girls Club expand into a wing of the building sponsored by the Rotary club.
In Birdland, it’s high spring.
The tree's one major downfall is its susceptibility to a leaf- and twig-infecting fungus called anthracnose, which is rarely fatal but causes the alarmingly bare canopies you can see now.
Before the May 12 vote, a group of Friends of the Crystal Lake Park Geese gathered at the corner of Park Street and Broadway Avenue to urge the board to save the geese. They organized again Tuesday, when more than 30 people showed up, said Susan Parenti, an organizer who lives near the park.
A Carolina wren is singing her heart out this afternoon outside my window. Such a powerful jubilant song from such a tiny bird!
These native trees have great ornamental value and a better track record.
Although the COVID-19 pandemic has forced me and you to drastically limit our movements, it has had no such impact on the most mobile creatures on Earth, birds. And for Midwesterners, the first couple of weeks in May offer opportunities to see more migratory birds than any other time of year.
During the weeklong residence camps, scouts ages 11 to 17 arrive on Sundays and leave on Saturday. Among the activities: canoeing, kayaking, archery and shooting.
It would help bring the population from about 80 to 100 down to 10 to 20, said Derek Liebert, the park district's superintendent of planning and operations.
We’ve had rain piled on rain in Birdland. First, a thunderstorm came in the night, comforting in all its tympanic booming. We woke to a heavy drizzle, which left a wider-than-usual delta in the meadow behind the Benson timber, and on top of the usual flooding of grass waterways, we saw new c…
For information about services available to older adults, contact Karen Kraemer, director of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and Helen Mary Stevick Senior Citizens Center, 15 E. Main St., Champaign, IL 61820, call 217-359-6500. RSVP and the Stevick Senior Center are administe…
Officials are considering the move after years of efforts to cull the population of the nuisance animal have only had modest results.
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