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A water treatment plant has operated on North Lincoln Avenue in Urbana since the 1880’s --- but no longer. Illinois-American Water took the plant offline in June. And Monday is the day they plan to start dismantling it.
A man who appeared to be protesting Saturday with a group of self-proclaimed fascists is accused of killing a woman and injuring multiple others by driving his car into a crowd of marchers in Charlottesville, Va.
The Illinois Senate meets Sunday to decide how to handle Gov. Bruce Rauner's amendatory veto of an education funding bill. But already, the state has missed a deadline for funding public schools.
There is now a Democrat running for the Illinois House seat serving parts of Champaign and Vermilion Counties. Cindy Cunningham of rural Royal in Champaign County says she will run for state representative in the 104th Illinois House District next year.
On the 21st: Illinois missed its first payment to K-12 schools yesterday because Democrats and Republicans can't agree on how to divide up that money. State Senator Andy Manar, the chief architect of the school funding bill SB1, weighs in on what comes next. Plus, we learn what's being done to address bedbug problems in central Illinois, and discuss a new eating competition at the state fair.
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