The Historic Virginia Theatre in downtown Champaign is a public venue best known for hosting Roger Ebert's Film Festival, held annually in April. It features a variety of performances from community theatre with the Champaign Urbana Theatre Company, to post box-office showings of popular films, current artistic films, live musical performances (both orchestral and popular), and other types of shows.

Population: 75254
Local Newspapers: The News-Gazette Daily Illini
Local Sports Teams: University of Illinois Fighting Illini
Local Colleges: University of Illinois

Zip Codes associated with champaign, illinois: 61820 61821 61822
Towns/Cities near champaign, illinois : Urbana Danville Mahomet Rantoul St Joseph

The city's plan commission voted Wednesday to streamline parking-space requirements for multi-use shopping centers at one space per 300 square feet, no matter the type of tenant. Currently, the parking requirement is one space per 300 square feet for shopping center tenants except restaurants, which are one space per 100 square feet.

On just one of the occasions where someone fired a gun inside a health care facility this year, a woman was fatally shot by a family member in the intensive care unit of New Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. This June, a gunman opened fire at the Center for Wellness and Pain Care of Las Vegas, injuring two people and then fatally shooting himself.

The city council gave a thumbs-up Monday to a lighter requirement, instead of a permit, for peaceful assemblies where 50 or more people gather that are planned within 48 hours. According to the unanimously approved ordinance from Urbana City Attorney James Simon, people organizing these spontaneous expressions of free speech will need to "make a reasonable effort" to notify the Urbana police chief or a member of the city's public works department "as soon as reasonably practicable."

The dean of the University of Illinois' engineering college says the No. 1 job of the next campus provost is to protect the breadth and depth of the school's academic enterprise.

SmithGroupJJR , one of the nation's largest integrated design firms, was recently recognized by the American Institute of Architects for their laboratory facility design at University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. The AIA's Committee on Architecture for Education granted the University of Illinois' Electrical and Computer Engineering Building and University of Pennsylvania's Stephen A. Levin Building-both designed by SmithGroupJJR-with 2017 Education Facility Design Awards .

Recanting by witnesses forced a prosecutor Tuesday to dismiss charges against two men accused in the violent home invasion and robbery of an elderly Champaign man about a year ago. Assistant State's Attorney Matt Banach said a "critical" witness in his case against Anthony Wilkins, 22, and Nevalle Booker, 19, is now refusing to cooperate in their prosecution for the Oct. 14, 2016, home invasion, armed robbery and aggravated robbery of an 87-year-old man who lived in the 1500 block of North McKinley Avenue.

A Seymour woman who fatally stabbed the father of her child more than a year ago is headed to prison but not for long enough to mollify the suffering of his family. In a courtroom crowded with angry, sad people, Sarah Kijanowski, 27, pleaded guilty this morning to a single count of second-degree murder.

The two brothers, each of whom has a doctoral degree in geology from Rice University in Texas, feared for years that people were out to get them. Their concerns had merit.

Affan Irfan, M.D. , and Paul Okhumale, M.D., r ecently joined Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine and Marshall Health as cardiologists. "We continue to see more and more patients in our region suffering from heart disease and related illnesses," said Mark A. Studeny, M.D., chair of the department of cardiovascular services at the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine.

The National Science Foundation awarded two grants on Thursday, totaling more than $500,000 to facilitate "safe zone" training encouraging more LGBTQ students to join engineering. The NSF awarded $473,325 to the American Society for Engineering Education and $114,116 to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, according to The Washington Free Beacon .

This week, the city council will comb through proposed regulations on video gambling, including a new license for gaming-centric establishments. Video gaming is big business in Champaign, with players wagering $123,665,410.11 so far in 2017 alone.

In 1917, Champaign County received $1,500 for holding on to Ernest Byram, who was arrested there several months previously in a vehicle theft in Indiana. In 1967, Helen M. Stevick, 77, president and publisher of The News-Gazette since 1935, died at the Fontana Nursing Care center after several months of declining health.

Agon is the proud sponsor of all high school coverage on SwimmingWorld.com. For more information about Agon, visit their website AgonSwim.com .

Senior drum major Enddy Almonord has been invited to the Macy's T-Day parade. At Central High School in Champaign on Friday, September 15, 2017.

In 1917, the Barnum and Bailey Circus was set to come to town from Alton. The circus was traveling in 89 double-length railroad cars, comprising four train sections.

Several state universities are partnering on new efforts to keep talented Illinois high school seniors in the state for college - and combat declining enrollment at some campuses - most recently at a high-profile recruiting event for top students in southern Illinois. The University of Illinois, Eastern Illinois University and Southern Illinois University co-sponsored the first "Salute to Illinois Scholars" on Tuesday at Mount Vernon's Doubletree Hilton for more than 170 college-bound students from the region.

The Centennial High School Gay Straight Alliance shows off its pride on Saturday afternoon in downtown Champaign. The 8th Annual Champaign-Urbana Pride Parade, Saturday, September 16, 2017 in downtown Champaign.

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