This was supposed to be a big, festive fall at the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District.
For one thing, the MTD would be marking the 50th anniversary of its birth: on Nov. 24, 1970, Champaign-Urbana residents voted by a nearly 4-to-1 margin to create a tax-supported bus system to replace the privately owned Champaign-Urbana City Lines. Its owners had kept threatening to go out of business without a subsidy from Champaign and Urbana.
âWe had planned a whole big thing for our 50th. And
we tabled it all,â said Managing Director Karl Gnadt. âWhat can you do? No one can go out to celebrate or anything. So basically, all weâve done is had a soft rollout of a new logo.â
Questions this week about more mysterious lights in the sky, notorious heists from the University of Illinois Library, how the $24.3 million project at Champaign s International Prep Academy could be financed, whether the stuff in our recycling bins gets recycled and what s going on at an old grocery store near downtown Urbana.
Also, voter turnouts on Nov. 3, right of way clearance along U.S. 45 in northern Champaign County, an apartment building under construction in Champaign, mask-wearing college athletes and what happened to the snow?
Neighborhood shop in Urbana Can you tell me information about the small shop located at 304 E. California, just off South Vine Street in Urbana? Lumen was initially announced as a local coffee shop and cafe. I and a friend walked over there several times in the morning just after it opened, but no one was ever there and I never saw it open to the public. The building looks like it had been a neighborhood store at one time â it has an old