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.

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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Taylorville, says he couldn't be happier to see the farm bill out of committee. "Messed up" were the first words that came out of Anne Allen's mouth when she learned the implications the proposed bill could have on her food aid.

Charles Young, who ran unsuccessfully for a county board seat last month, said Monday he would like to be appointed to the District 6 seat that Hartke said he will resign effective April 30. Young, a retired University of Illinois education historian, joins current board member Pattsi Petrie, who also lost in her bid for re-election in the March 20 primary, as a candidate for appointment to the board to represent the central and northwest Champaign district. Mike Ingram got nearly half the votes cast in the three-way Democratic primary, collecting 1,019 to 786 for Petrie and 245 for Young.

In 1918, Holy Cross School won the much-disputed grade school championship of the city, defeating the Avenue School five by a score of 10-8. In 1968, the Champaign County Board of Supervisors elected Wesley Schwengel of Champaign Township as its new chairman and raised salaries of assistant state's attorneys.

This sequel isn't just more of the same from Broken Lizard-it's a lot more, and for no good reason. "The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty.

From childhood games of Cops and Robbers to that feeling he got the first time a police officer visited his class at Robeson Elementary, TIM ATTEBERRY heard his career calling before he even made it to high school. "This was something I wanted to do from the time I was a child," says Atteberry, a midnight shift officer in Champaign police's patrol division.

The Champaign Fire Department confirmed it sent firefighters to a working fire in the 1600 block of Sheffield Road at 4:48 p.m. Sunday. Start a subscription now to enjoy our award-winning local news and sports coverage.

In 1918, dedication of the Busey Memorial Library in Urbana was to be held about June 1, according to a statement made by George W. Busey, chairman of the building committee. Work on the book stacks was to begin soon.

Lee made the trip to Moscow from Champaign, Illinois, to see her son in a Vandals uniform for the first time Saturday. D.J. Lee, a redshirt freshman wide receiver , rewarded her with four touchdown catches, two each from quarterbacks Colton Richardson and Mason Petrino .

When I was a kid politician in the 1960s, titans of commerce and industry often served on appointed boards in Illinois, especially those for higher education. No longer, it seems.

The News-Gazette reports a group of space enthusiasts have worked to expand their observatory to be more accessible to the public. The Champaign-Urbana Astronomical Society is opening its Prairie Winds Observatory Saturday after four years of construction.

Property-tax rates are up this year in most areas of Champaign County, but they're way up in Champaign, thanks to the rate increase for the school building plan approved by voters in 2016. Most Champaign property-tax payers - those in the Unit 4 School District, Champaign Park District and City of Champaign Township - will see a rate of $9.04 per $100 of assessed valuation this year, up from $8.27 last year.

Dr. Howard M. Sachar, Professor Emeritus of History and International Affairs at George Washington University and author of numerous works of Jewish, Middle-Eastern and European history passed away on April 18, 2018, at the age of 90 at his home in Kensington, Maryland. He was born to Dr. Abram L. Sachar and his wife, Thelma Horwitz, in St. Louis, Missouri in 1928 and raised in Champaign, Illinois, while his father was a professor of history at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A lot of infrastructure questions this week, with a little bit of table shuffleboard and April snowfall for variety. Queries about Cronus, campus constriction, a railroad crossing, a safer University Avenue around Central High School, potholes in the post office parking lot and more.

According to the Champaign County Coroner's office, 19-year-old Justin Shaw was pronounced dead as a result of the crash. He was first rushed to Carle Foundation Hospital where he died from blunt force trauma around 6:30 a.m. Shaw was traveling southbound on Duncan Road when he failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a vehicle heading westbound, police told WAND News.

Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said Justin Shaw, 19, was pronounced dead at 6:35 a.m. at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana of multiple blunt force injuries he received in a crash that happened about three hours earlier. Champaign police Lt.

A man who allegedly convinced two teenagers to shoplift for him at Macy's faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of charges filed Wednesday. Lamar Reese, 26, who listed addresses in the 2500 block of Myers Court in Champaign and the 800 block of East Kerr in Urbana, was charged with two felony counts of contributing to the criminal delinquency of a minor.

Gregory Nava, writer and director of "Selena", speaks before the presentation of the film during the 20th Annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival at the Virginia Theatre Thursday, April 19, 2018, in Champaign. CHAMPAIGN - Introducing Thursday's showing of Christopher Nolan's science-fiction blockbuster "Interstellar," RogerEbert.com editor Brian Tallerico called it "the biggest movie in this festival" and "a $20 million movie about love."

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