Tuesday night July 5 at 7:00 on the Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 it’s the “Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcast” with their Independence Day program “Variations on “America”. You’ll hear Gershwin’s “Cuban Overture”, Bernstein’s “Symphonic Dances from West Side Story”, and more.

Work on two federally funded road construction projects in Champaign-Urbana will have to halt --- unless state lawmakers and the governor act quickly this weekend to pass a budget to authorize the state to spend the money on the projects in the new fiscal year.

Another section of Olympian Drive along the north edge of Champaign-Urbana was set to open for traffic on Monday, March 6th. Meanwhile, a section of North Lincoln Avenue that connects to Olympian is closed for an upgrade.