Champaign County (Illinois)

Here is an archive, in reverse chronological order, of the Tribune's coverage of the Daniel Taylor case: News story: Criminal justice: Jail alibi doesn't outweigh confession -- Records show Daniel Taylor in jail when double murder occurred, but...

The following incidents were taken from Wilmette Police Department reports on May 1-6. DOMESTIC BATTERY A 55-year-old Wilmette woman was arrested at 10:25 p.m. May …...

Burglary An iPod and cash were reported stolen at 8:29 p.m. July 17 from a home in the 1500 block of Elm Street. The home …...

Photo courtesy of Jonathan Pines It’s possible to lay all sorts of emotional baggage atop Jay Bennett’s posthumous album, “Kicking at the Perfumed Air.� As with much of the songwriter’s work, it has a haunted air of introspection that sometimes....

UPDATED at 4:38 p.m. by Rick Pearson, David Kidwell, John Chase and Jeff Coen Leading Republicans this afternoon are privately expressing doubts that Bill Brady can overcome Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn's narrow lead following Tuesday's election, and a...

South Side rapper Lil Reese was caught sleeping in a car early Sunday and arrested on a warrant. The arrest warrant was issued Thursday in Champaign County for Lil Reese, 20, whose birth name is Tavares Taylor. He was arrested about 4 a.m. Sunday in...

South Side rapper Lil Reese's Sunday arrest on a felony warrant is tied to a 2012 videotaped incident in which he purportedly beat and stomped a woman in her Champaign home, police said Monday. Video of the attack went viral late last year, with...

The neighborhood farmer grapevine, fiber optic for years now, was set abuzz two weeks ago with news that a 237-acre piece of the township for sale at $12,500 per acre. Whoa, right? Well, the land sports five-year averages of 199 bu. for corn and 60...

A Lake in the Hills man attending the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign died this morning after being severely injured in a hit-and-run collision late Friday, authorities said. Anthony G. Pauls, 22, was declared dead at 7:54 a.m. at Carle...

An alcohol-fueled fight between two roommates landed both in jail after one fired a shot inside a residence in downstate Champaign early this morning, causing an evacuation and a SWAT response, police said. Twenty-two year old David Lu returned home from...

Stories about prison inmates being exonerated and sent home from prison tend to be similar, but Andre Davis's case had a special twist. Two, in fact. First, since the first time DNA evidence was used to clear a wrongfully convicted inmate's name in 1989,...

Danger prowled Capitol Hill shortly after the Senate Ag Committee approved its version of the 2012 Farm Bill April 26. The trouble wasn't from folks who might have lost out when the Committee “streamlined” 23 conservation programs into 13 to “save”...