Chancellor Jones signs newest version of Illinois Climate Action Plan
By Samantha Boyle, Managing Editor for Reporting
October 21, 2020
The newest version of the Illinois Climate Action Plan was signed and approved at the Campus Sustainability Celebration during a Zoom call on Tuesday by Chancellor Robert Jones. This plan is developed in order to commit the University “to divest from fossil fuels, switch to clean energy sources,...
UI police chief unveils programs to involve campus community
By Mona Alrazzaq, Staff Writer
October 19, 2020
University of Illinois Police Department’s Police Chief Alice Cary has plans to implement a community outreach and support team, or COST, a behavioral unit and a victim service program in response to calls for increased community involvement in policing. COST is a specialized unit of community poli...
UI student heads effort to bring dictionaries to prisoners
By Alexandra Gergova, Contributing Writer
October 15, 2020
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the difference between the amount of dictionaries requested by incarcerated people and the amount received has been exacerbated severely. To combat this growing issue, Kate Shanks, sophomore in LAS and volunteer with UC Books to Prisoners, organized a community-w...
Yingying Zhang documentary presented at film festivals
By Samantha Boyle, Managing Editor for Reporting
October 15, 2020
A documentary called “Finding Yingying” about the international scholar Yingying Zhang who went missing in 2017 is airing at several film festivals this month. Zhang was reported missing in June 2017 and was last seen getting into a Saturn Astra on Goodwin Avenue. Brendt Christensen was arrested a...
University discusses plans to adjust spring semester calendar
By Samantha Boyle, Managing Editor for Reporting
October 14, 2020
The University is potentially planning to cancel the originally planned spring break and push back the semester by one week, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The semester's original end date and finals week would stay the same and commencement will still be scheduled for May 15. Spring break...
Krannert makes changes for accessibility
By Vivian La
October 7, 2020
Major accessibility upgrades are underway at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts and will be complete by the end of the fall semester. Originally slated to be complete by summer 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic has created an opportunity for the facilities and services crew to work with minimal ...
Suspect arrested in February homicide that left one dead
By The Daily Illini Staff Report
October 7, 2020
An arrest was made on the charges of first-degree murder in the 1100 block of North James Street around 11 a.m. Tuesday. According to the Champaign Police press release, the 33-year-old suspect was located by the Champaign County Street Crimes Task Force and the United States Marshal's Great Lakes Regional...
Several street closures announced in CU
By Samantha Boyle, Managing Editor for Reporting
October 6, 2020
Starting next Monday, State Street in Champaign will be closed between Tremont and Maple streets. Through traffic will not be allowed to pass through, but access to all properties will still be available. State Street is being closed in order to complete rail and pavement maintenance. The street is...
Illinois excluding Champaign County from regional COVID data; two more county fatalities
By Ethan Simmons, News Editor
October 5, 2020
Due to the extraordinary volume of tests coming from the University of Illinois, Illinois public health officials are excluding Champaign County tests from regional figures. Without the University’s average of 8,600 daily tests driving down the region’s positivity rate, the entire region, includin...
CU mayors issue trick-or-treating COVID-19 guidelines
By Samantha Boyle, Managing Editor for Reporting
October 5, 2020
Ahead of Halloween, Champaign-Urbana officials released official trick-or-treating standards to avoid making the holiday an agent of the coronavirus. Since Halloween falls on Saturday, trick-or-treating will run from 5 to 7 p.m. On Friday, Champaign Mayor Deborah Feinen and Urbana Mayor Diane Marlin urged all resi...
CU officials, organizations encourage mail-in voting
By Vivian La, Contributing Writer
October 5, 2020
Due to social distancing guidelines and the Center of Disease Control’s recommendations, local election officials and organizations are strongly recommending voters to cast their ballots through the mail instead of voting in-person. The usual controlled chaos of conducting an election has become more complic...
Protesters march, gather at police headquarters for cacerolazo
By Salem Isaf, Assistant Daytime News Editor
October 2, 2020
On Thursday evening, protesters gathered outside the University of Illinois Police Department headquarters equipped with pots, pans and megaphones. This wasn’t a regular protest, but what is known as a cacerolazo: a form of protest in which participants bang pots, pans and kitchen utensils toget...
