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

Gov. Bruce Rauner's recent choice for a seat on the University of Illinois Board of Trustees is a generous Republican campaign donor. The News-Gazette reports that Dr. Stuart King has given $6,000 to Citizens for Rauner.

Soochow University orders two diffraction gratings from Inprentus for Synchrotron X-ray applications at China's National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory CHAMPAIGN, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES, July 21, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / -- After a competitive bidding process Inprentus was chosen to supply Soochow University with custom diffraction gratings that will be used in synchrotron beamline applications at China's National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory in Hefei, Anhui Province, China. Inprentus diffraction gratings are used in spectrometers and monochromators, critical tools for x-ray science, which enable the study of materials and advance scientific discovery.

Police are looking for the person or people responsible for shooting two men at a party in north Champaign late Thursday. Champaign detective Lt.

A Champaign man who has escaped conviction on a number of serious felonies in the last two years, including murder, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison. Shamario Brown, 19, who listed an address in the 3600 block of Colleen Drive, pleaded guilty to aggravated unlawful use of weapons and aggravated battery to a peace officer for crimes he committed in March in Champaign.

Dr. Stuart King, a Christie Clinic physician and Champaign resident with three degrees from the University of Illinois, was named Friday, July 21, 2017, to fill one of two vacancies on the UI Board of Trustees. For the first time in more than a decade, the home of the state's flagship university will be represented on the UI's board of trustees.

University of Illinois Deputy Police Chief Tony Brown stands Monday, July 17, 2017, in front of a display case that he and his twin brother, John, installed at the department's headquarters in Urbana. Brown will take over as Rantoul's new police chief next month.

Longtime University of Illinois administrator Avijit Ghosh has been named interim top finance officer for the three-campus system, President Tim Killeen announced Thursday. Ghosh will assume the position effective Sept.

This undated file photo provided by The University of Illinois Police Department shows Yingying Zhang, a Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois who was kidnapped June 9, 2017. A Champaign man has been indicted on kidnapping charges in Zhang's disappearance.

A Champaign man on probation for a weapons-related conviction is in custody in the Macon County Jail for a holdup that happened in Mahomet earlier this week. Mahomet Police Chief Mike Metzler said Cameron Anderson, 20, who listed an address in the 2400 block of Lakewood Drive, is being held in the jail in Decatur and is also a suspect in three convenience store robberies that happened in Macon County.

Urbana police detective Betsy Alfonso said Amanda Vogel, 28, who listed an address in the 400 block of West University Avenue, was linked to a holdup that occurred about 8 p.m. on July 14 in the 500 block of Lake Street. Alfonso said a 45-year-old taxi driver from Champaign picked up a woman near Crystal Lake Park and, after a short ride, she told him to pull over.

DuPage County prosecutors will use evidence of previous crimes when they bring a former Champaign man to trial in connection with a 32-year-old murder of a teenage girl. Michael R. Jones is scheduled to go to trial on Jan. 23 in DuPage County for the July 21, 1985, death of 15-year-old Kristy Wesselman of Glen Ellyn.

In 1917, the draft lottery for servicemen was underway in Washington, D.C. The first man drafted from Champaign County District 1, of which Urbana was part, was Henry George Denhart of Ogden. He and all of those drafted had 10 days, under the conscription law, to prove exemption.

A few months later, Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District Managing Director Karl Gnadt reached out to Grotelueschen to discuss the MTD's long-planned expansion of the Illinois Terminal, not wanting to get in each other's way. "We had two really potentially significant projects, and I thought it would be good for us to not step on each others' toes," Gnadt said Tuesday.

A 22-year-old Champaign woman who admitted participating in an attempt to rob a group of men in their Campustown apartment last month has been sentenced to 30 months probation. Brianna Samuels, who listed an address in the 500 block of East White Street, pleaded guilty Wednesday before Judge Heidi Ladd to attempted armed robbery in a June 27 crime that occurred at an apartment at 207 E. Green St., C. Assistant State's Attorney Matt Banach said Samuels was with two men who went to the apartment to try to get back $300 that one of the co-defendants, Juwan Townsel, 19, of Urbana, thought had been stolen from him at a party in that apartment earlier in June.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. : The police presence in downtown Champaign is increasing on the weekends as a result of gunshots fired into the air several weekends ago.

A US federal grand jury indicted Brendt Christensen on a count of kidnapping on Wednesday in connection with the disappearance of Zhang Yingying, a 26-year-old Chinese research student at the University of Illinois, and who was last seen at its Urbana-Champaign campus on June 9. The penalty for kidnapping is up to life in prison if convicted. And for many in China, it is an open and shut case.

The Champaign City Council unanimously agreed Tuesday to lengthen a road that will feed into the future Carle at the Fields development. The vote annexed land that will become a southward extension of Fields South Drive, from its current endpoint near the Stephens Family YMCA to the northern edge of Carle's new development.

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