This January, the town’s most famous barbecue restaurant will close its Urbana location (again). Black Dog Smoke & Ale House ...

December 21st, the Winter Solstice, officially marks the shortest day of the year. After that we, the daylight hours will ...

Listen up: the University of Illinois Press teamed up with The Country Music Foundation last summer and dropped one of the ...

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A year ago, when we published this annual article, we were post-2024 elections facing the terrifying uncertainty of what the next administration would bring us. Well, we know how all of that has ...