

September 30, 2022
URBANA — Some Urbana High schoolers managed to bring home a victory on their home turf during Homecoming Week.
Without a varsity football team to take the field, UHS classes sh...

September 29, 2022
He has 429 wins and a trip to state under his belt as Champaign Central High School’s well-established baseball coach. Yet John Staab decided this year to return to coaching at th...

September 29, 2022
Congratulations to Champaign Edison, St. Joseph and Gifford for reaching the IESA state baseball tournament. All three teams will play quarterfinal games Friday in East Peoria. T...

September 27, 2022
CHAMPAIGN — Champaign Central’s varsity football team made itself at home at McKinley Field on Saturday afternoon.
Though Wheaton St. Francis claimed a 69-14 win in the venue’s...

September 27, 2022
The resilient kids at Fisher High School are treating homecoming week like any other — even in the absence of a varsity football program.
They decorated hallways and worked on ...

September 27, 2022
CHAMPAIGN — The Champaign school district’s school-placement program will likely receive an overhaul next summer.
In a presentation at Monday night’s board meeting, consulti...

September 27, 2022
Of course the Urbana High School Marching Tigers would like to be playing at varsity football games this season. It’s part of what they do.
But when the 2022 varsity season was...

September 22, 2022
Justin Barnhart doesn’t care much for down time.
When he’s not teaching physical education at Centennial, the Urbana native keeps himself busy as the school’s assistant athleti...


September 15, 2022
Amanda Jansen grew up with her head buried in books, so it made sense that she taught seventh- and eighth-grade literature at Fisher Junior Senior High for the last 18 years.
W...

September 13, 2022
CHAMPAIGN — Answers to many of neighborhood residents’ questions about a first-of-its-kind Saturday afternoon Central High varsity football game at McKinley Field were provided Mo...

September 9, 2022
Hall of Fame high school basketball coach Lee Cabutti has died.
He was 97. Cabutti coached basketball in Champaign for 29 years, winning more games than anyone in school distr...

September 7, 2022
The impact that Myron Luth had on the softball scene at Heritage schools will be easy to spot on Saturday, many of his former players returning for a tournament in his name at the...

September 2, 2022
OMNI Youth Services is hosting a parent and community webinar on Thursday, September 29 with Special Agent Greg Czaczkowski from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to prov...

September 2, 2022
Whether they’re found around Champaign-Urbana, like the one discovered at Rose Bowl Tavern, or across the country, like the one found in LaGuardia Airport in New York City, or aro...

September 2, 2022
GIBSON CITY — With an open date on its football schedule this week, the Gibson City-Melvin-Sibley football team and others associated with the school will get together tonight to ...

August 31, 2022
PAXTON — The newest member of the social work team at Paxton's Clara Peterson Elementary enjoys listening to young readers, performing the occasional trick and having his belly ru...

August 30, 2022
The organizers of Centennial High School’s Class of 1972 50-year reunion got to work early. Very, very early.
Five years ago, to be exact. “It started right after the 45th,” s...

August 29, 2022
DATE: August 30, 2022 SUBJECT: CU Schools Foundation welcomes two new board members CHAMPAIGN/URBANA, IL -- The Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation (CUSF) is pleased to welcome ...