Our Luke Taylor and Robin Scholz tagged along Wednesday on the UI campus with veterans participating in the Warrior-Scholar Project, an academic boot camp that exposes them to what going to college full-time is like.

Danville Area Community College Board President Greg Wolfe said they had a 12-person committee that interviewed three DACC president candidates.

Monday's Urbana City Council meeting has been moved to Wednesday at 6 p.m. due to "technical difficulties."

Unlike his Grammy-winning predecessor, new UI Chancellor Charles Isbell says: “I can’t carry a tune." We disagree — check out the parody music video "Mean Without a Cluster," starring "Smoov" (Isbell) and his fedora-wearing sidekick "Curly" (Brown computer scientist Michael Littman).

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a new law to make a series of changes to the Prisoner Review Board after it released a man who would go on to commit murder, leading to intense scrutiny in Springfield.

"You made your fellow Marines, family, friends and community proud of your bravery, gallant actions and service to your country."

Tim Cowan "vacated" the position June 6, according to city staff. Tonight's City Council meeting includes a vote on the appointment of deputy director Vincent Gustafson to interim director.

On June 1, a woman entered the Going, Going, Gone! Dick’s Sporting Goods outlet in Champaign, selected numerous items and placed them in her purse. She left the store without paying, carrying merchandise valued at nearly $900.

The Illinois Community Action Hall of Fame is the second hall of fame to which John Dimit has been inducted.