CHAMPAIGN — A week after police responded to protests on the University of Illinois campus and arrested two demonstrators, members of an encampment calling for the UI to divest from
On Sunday, the Champaign-Urbana branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation held a protest at the Champaign County Courthouse for the deaths of Azaan Lee and Jordan Richardson, as well as the conditions at the Champaign County jail. Lee died in February this year after an encounter with Rantoul police resulted in a gun.
The case of a man who, in 2021, allegedly shot and paralyzed University of Illinois graduate Liam Gasser on Prospect Avenue in Champaign will go to trial this year or
Glenn Jones, 65, of Pesotum, is currently on parole for stalking a neighbor and received more than three years of mental health treatment before that case could be resolved.