3+ week, 6+ day ago  (606+ words) A numerical look at what's making news on and around the UI campus: Chaz Ebert with 2025 Ebertfest guest Eric Roberts. Among the hundreds of player-themed tops on sale at the Illinois NIL Store: a March Madness-themed David'Mirkovic T-shirt that goes…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (645+ words) The most challenging aspect of being a leader to Rohit Bhargava? "Remaining focused and keeping everyone focused on the positive impact we can have, when there is so much change and uncertainty around us." Home for the past 21 years has…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (905+ words) From left, Berenise Barajas, Khloe Winston-Fischer and Dagon England talk about which topic they will focus on during a youth council meeting. Rantoul Mayor Sam Hill III asks members of the youth council questions during a meeting at Village Hall....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (948+ words) Before computers and smartphones or anything digital, and before TVs were common, there was the great and glorious outdoors for kid play: ditch banks to run; dilapidated, abandoned houses and barns to explore; tall weed patches to crawl through; trees…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (560+ words) Marco Nieto and Joel Danowitz A first-in-the-nation law that would prohibit banks and cred" It doesn't matter whether students find speech by other students offensive, Firs" Joining the show Tuesday: birthday girl Reagan Schluter, who'll belt out the national anthem…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1797+ words) Janet Le Roy just hit her 40th year teaching at Leal Elementary, and she has no desire to leave anytime soon. Janet Le Roy holds up a school picture of the first year she taught. Retiring third-grade teacher Janet Le Roy…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago  (377+ words) Diamond Posey has worked as a kindergarten aide at South Side Elementary School, Champaign, for the last four years. When Diamond Posey began teaching as an aide in Casey Gossman's first-grade classroom four years ago at Champaign's South Side Elementary…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (442+ words) It's that time of year, when the "Best of 2025" lists come out. Here are two of my favorites, which were included in Publisher's Weekly's lists, along with several others. "Let's be bees," the text begins. "Let's Buzz." Bold, warm crayon…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago  (663+ words) Leal Elementary School kindergarten teacher Amanda Nelson spreads out newly-purchased toys in her Urbana classroom Thursday. A CU Schools Foundation grant paid for the toys for inclusion in kindergarten lesson plans. Jamie Jones said the newly-purchased toys will help students…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (857+ words) Total enrollment on the UI's flagship campus exceeded 60, 000 for the first time. SPRINGFIELD " Enrollment at public universities in Illinois grew to a 10-year high of 189, 791 students, a 2. 3 percent increase over last year, according to figures released by the Illinois Board…...