Category: Safety
Safety
Champaign County jail and protection of Mahomet Aquifer
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For years, residents in the Rolling Acres and part of the Cherry Hills subdivisions have been receiving fire protection from the village of Savoy, but administrators with the City of Champaign are now invoking a decades-old agreement and asking Savoy officials to stop providing that service.
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Video of the Calvin Miller police chase.
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Traffic crash facts report released.
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The proposed tax hike failed 9-0. Things are just starting to get interesting.
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Two people were shot outside Marketplace Mall on Sunday afternoon.
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Major Campustown fire on March 23, 2011.
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Bradley Bunte is unofficially dead. He walked into a moving automobile while crossing University Avenue at its intersection with McCullough Street in Urbana a block east of Carle Hospital and its Regional Trauma Center. It was the evening of Unofficial Saint Patrick’s Day. Bunte was crossing against the traffic light. Knocked to the pavement a second automobile ran him over. His blood alcohol level was 0.27 – profoundly intoxicated. He was wearing the official green Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day tee shirt. He was a registered organ donor and was maintained on life support until his useful organs could be harvested to save others’ lives. He was 21 years old.
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Cameras are already in place on campus. Do we need more? An unexpected ridealong with the U of I Chief of Police, Barb O'Connor, shed some very interesting light on the newest technologies in surveillance on campus.
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I was invited to tour three residents' homes to view their living conditions. Out of the three, one tenant, in particular, was open to sharing her situation with me. I visited with her two more times. It sounds like her living conditions are extreme, but that is not the case. There are more like hers. We need to continue to find solutions to our underserved housing needs in our community. I will continue to follow-up on her situation.
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