Central High School has changed a lot since the alumni who would become the founders of GRIT Automation received their diplomas and today, they’re proud to say they contributed to those changes.

The $319,070 in tax increment brought into the city’s special tax allocation fund last fiscal year — which began May 1, 2024, and ended April 30, 2025 — pushed the 13-year total for the TIF district since its establishment in 2012 to $1,220,798.

In the history books, he’ll forever be Sir Anthony Leggett, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, fellow of the Royal Society back home in the U.K. and namesake of the UI's Anthony J. Leggett Institute for Condensed Matter Theory. But to so many on campus, he was just Tony, soft-spoken and beloved colleague, mentor and inspiration. 

Calling into Monday's 40th show: Regis University president-to-be and Urbana native Shawna Cooper Whitehead, new Urbana alderman Verdell Jones III, 2004-05 Illini super sub Jack Ingram and Project 47 Smokehouse owner Justin Taylor.

Interstate 57 northbound has reopened at Milepost 219.5 near the Douglas-Champaign county line, state police announced at 11:04 a.m.

Champaign County Crime Stoppers is asking for the public's help identifying a suspect in a clothing and liquor theft from Meijer in Champaign.

Our panel: May Berenbaum, Paul Debevec, Nicole (Millage) Faust, Scott Spiezio, Bonnie Blair-Cruikshank, Susannah Scaroni, Ken Dilger, Craig Hella Johnson, Erika Harold, Katherine Reutter-Adamek and Amanda McGrory.

Police responded to a report of 15-20 gunshots in the 800 block of East Kerr Avenue.

Danville Area Visitors Bureau Executive Director Rhonda Ellis said it takes more than 300 volunteers to make everything run smoothly. The volunteers help with the ticket gates, serving food, checking in volunteers, distributing coaches' packets and a variety of other duties.

The shelter assisted with a "heartbreaking" situation after a local resident died, leaving 20 Chihuahua mixes living in a one-bedroom apartment, according to Shelter Programs Manager Kate Suchodolski.

Whether a Champaign viaduct that was closed last summer will reopen … what’s next for the Village of Savoy’s plan to build a new downtown area … a couple of new branch banks coming to U.S. 45 South … and why Champaign’s sales tax recently went up.

Three buses were damaged by a fire extinguisher, an unknown offender deceptively obtained a victim's social security number and more in this week's crime report.