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School making changes to parking lot availability
St. Joseph Grade School is making some changes to the availability of its parking lot. The district recently placed letters on vehicles parked in the lot stating the district’s policy on allowing cars to park in school lots was changing. The letter, written by Superintendent Lance Landeck, said “It...
Construction on Urbana's $25 million-plus sixth-grade center to start soon
Jul. 2—URBANA — Construction starts this month to transform the building that was once Wiley Elementary into a new Urbana Middle School Sixth Grade Center to be completed by the 2025-26 school year. Last week, the school board approved a bid from the English Brothers Company to complete the project for over $25 million. Board President Paul Poulosky voted in favor of creating the sixth-grade ...
University of Illinois’s iFAB hub awarded more than $50 million
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — A tech hub at the University of Illinois was awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the federal government. The White House announced Tuesday 12 tech hubs across the nation are getting $504 million from the Economic Development Administration, including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s iFAB Tech Hub which is receiving $51 […]
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