Downtown Champaign’s first Ethiopian restaurant has set an official opening date. The new Blue Ethiopian Cuisine & Cafe will ...

This week is the last week of publishing for the year on Smile Politely, and I want to end 2025’s Thirsty Thursday column with drink that’ll keep us warm on the cold weeks ahead. This week, I’m ...

Curious about the buzz surrounding the new restaurant Sumo Kitchen, I did what anybody would do and looked up what they had on their website. With a sumo wrestler as mascot, I read that the guiding ...

Ted’s Café at the Beckman Institute has re-opened in 2025 after a two-year hiatus for a renovation. The café was named after Beckman’s founding Director, Ted Brown, a proponent of community offered by ...

Seasons Greetings and all the what have you, dear reader! Last year, after we announced our Autumn 2024 donor campaign, a monumentally generous couple of readers offered to help us raise even more ...

Before the hustle and bustle of the end of the year wears us out so much that we prepare to hunker down after the new year, get out and make some friends with whom to keep in touch. Experience ...

The City of Champaign’s final yard waste collection, originally scheduled for December 1st, will now begin on Monday, December 8th. So, if you haven’t bagged up your leaves yet, you still have time.

A new fast food restaurant called Big Sharks opened yesterday on Prospect Avenue. The menu offers fried catfish, fried walleye, fried chicken, fried jumbo shrimp, fried pickles, burgers (single, ...