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Urbana Arts & Culture Program to host remote teen artist listening session

August 11, 2020 / 4:37pm / Debra Domal

Attention teen artists! The Urbana Arts & Culture Program wants to hear your ideas and suggestions for future programming. Whether your medium is music, art,… More »

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Sen. Kamala Harris is Joe Biden’s VP pick; Now remember she used to live in C-U

August 11, 2020 / 4:18pm / Patrick Singer

Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) will join Joe Biden in pursuit of the United States Presidency. Biden announced today Harris will be his running mate against President… More »

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Big Ten postpones fall sports to 2021

August 11, 2020 / 3:40pm / Patrick Singer

In a statement issued today by the Big Ten Conference, which is home to the University of Illinois and many other midwestern universities, they announced… More »

Culture

Year of the Park, A to Z: Eisner Park, Champaign

August 11, 2020 / 3:00pm / By Seth Fein

Is Eisner the best park in all of Champaign? It's in the discussion, that is for sure.

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This election, you’ll be able to return your ballot by drop box

August 11, 2020 / 12:48pm / Jessica Hammie

In order to make voting easier, the Champaign County Clerk's office has set up actual ballot boxes for voters to return their mail in/absentee ballots.… More »

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This week is (Virtual) Taste of Champaign-Urbana, and here are the participating restaurants

August 11, 2020 / 10:00am / Alyssa Buckley

Taste of Champaign-Urbana is celebrating 50 years this year, virtually. The virtual Taste of Champaign-Urbana has a Facebook event page here. Instead of having an… More »

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Smile Politely seeking Culture writers

August 11, 2020 / 9:50am / Smile Politely Editors

Our culture section attempts to capture the essence of C-U. We write about the people, places, and events that make this community a pretty awesome… More »

Food & Drink

Feeding Our Kids serves students facing food insecurity in our community

August 11, 2020 / 9:00am / By Alyssa Buckley

Alyssa talks with members of the board for Feeding Our Kids about the work they're doing in C-U for students with food insecurity.

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U of I professor Ben Grosser's The Endless Doomscroller hits close to home

August 11, 2020 / 8:50am / Patrick Singer

Ben Grosser, Associate Professor of New Media in School of Art + Design at University of Illinois, is no stranger to analyzing the current media… More »

Culture

A historic take on “back to school”, part one

August 11, 2020 / 7:00am / By Rick D. Williams

Lessons in local history abound if you know where to look.

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For the first time in its history, let’s give Champaign County Forest Preserve District a boost

August 10, 2020 / 8:30pm / Seth Fein

If there was ever a moment in the Champaign County Forest Preserve's 72-year history that it felt absolutely 110% reasonable for its board to ask… More »

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Ebertfest 2021 moves from April to September

August 10, 2020 / 6:51pm / Patrick Singer

This year's Ebertfest was canceled, as most events have been in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. When that announcement took place, Roger Ebert's Film… More »