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URBANA â Nelly Sfeir Gonzalez, 90, died at 9:56 p.m. on Sunday, November 29, 2020, from respiratory failure caused by COVID-19 after fighting valiantly for two weeks at Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana.
Nelly was exemplary at all the stages of her life, being at different times a fun playmate to her siblings and neighborhood children, a student leader in her university days, a supportive wife to her civil engineer husband Walter, a dedicated mother to her five sons (Walter Ramiro, Mauricio, Javier, Fernando and Sergio), a nationally-recognized librarian and award-winning bibliographer at the University of Illinois, a doting grandmother to 11 grandchildren (two of whom died prior to puberty) and one great-grandchild, and a fearless elderly person who faced the challenges of aging with serenity. A consummate oral storyteller, she had a winning smile, charming wit, and the gift of making and cultivating friends of all ages, and all social backgrounds, for the long haul. At a fe
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