Today is Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago:
In 1926, the Illinois Commerce Commission granted Champaign County’s petition that an underpass for Route 12 be dug beneath the Wabash railroad tracks at the eastern edge of Sidney. The Wabash company and the county will each pay 45 percent of the costs, and Sidney will pay the remaining 10 percent.
In 1976, after eight years of deliberation, the Urbana City Council voted to offer the Broadway Development Corp. $187,000 for a key lot in the city’s downtown section. The lot, at the southwest corner of Main and Broadway streets, is key to proposed redevelopment plans.
In 2011, Champaign police Lt. Jon Swenson, whose patrol district includes the University Village apartment complex in the 2000 block of Moreland Boulevard that has averaged a police call a day, believes new managers seem willing to reduce that statistic. He met with the new property manager. Then property representatives met with a group of concerned tenants and their parents. The meetings came in the wake of shots having been fired in a parking lot, and two apartments in the same building being broken into.