Nostalgia

Nathan Tolbert is a lead research software engineer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, and for the past 15 years he has also been developing indie games in …

WEFT posted these two pictures of their building as it was in 1984 (the second picture it WEFT in it’s current state). Look at that balcony, those huge glass windows, and the deep set door. …

This Monday the nation observes President’s Day. It was established in 1885, and initially was a day to honoring our first president, George Washington. In 1971, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act shifted the celebration from February …

Each week, the City of Champaign shares a throwback photo of times-gone-by in Champaign. This week, it was of the ribbon cutting of the newly reopened Neil Street. For just over ten years, from 1975 …

In 2017 the Kip Pope Family donated a collection of photographs of neon signs in Champaign-Urbana from about 1939. The Champaign County History Museum recently shared this Flickr account with the images; they look incredible. …