City Supports New Emergency Low Barrier Homeless Shelters
The City is proud to partner with C-U at Home and other local funding partners this winter to provide emergency low barrier shelters to residents without an address. Later this month, C-U at Home will begin “wet shelter” operations that will be available from 7:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. through mid-April at two new locations. […]
Emergency Rent Assistance Still Available
The Illinois eviction moratorium expired on October 3, 2021. Assistance for those financially impacted by COVID-19 may qualify for assistance through the Champaign County Regional Planning Commission’s Emergency Rent Assistance program. The program will pay for past due housing costs, such as rent and bills (power, water, sewer). The amount of assistance will be based […]
Code Compliance Response Times Temporarily Adjusted
Due to a record increase in the amount of Tenant Inspection requests, the Code Compliance Division will temporarily extend response times for some case types. The response time for most nuisance complaints will be extended from three to five days. Inspectors will still respond to nuisance complaints that are more time sensitive (i.e. garbage complaints) […]
City Hosts Springfield Fall Festival Block Party
On October 23, the Neighborhood Services Department (NSD) hosted a Fall Festival Block Party at the corner of Kenwood and Springfield. Families from Champaign Park Apartments, Stonegate Village Apartments, and Country Brook Apartments enjoyed games, food, and fun. Area businesses partnered with NSD to help make the event possible. Ramshaw Realty and Royce and Brinkmeyer […]
Surveying Set to Begin in Garden Hills
Topographic surveying in the Garden Hills Neighborhood will begin on October 25, 2021. This work is part of the planned drainage and lighting improvements in the Garden Hills Neighborhood that will be implemented over the next few years. The City’s consultant engineer (Clark Dietz) will perform the topographic surveying in the areas highlighted on the […]
City Submits Consolidated Annual Performance Review
The City submitted its Consolidated Annual Performance Review (CAPER) to HUD on September 28. The CAPER outlines the City’s expenditures and accomplishments with Community Development Block Grant Funds during the previous program year. Projects funded during FY 2020-21 program year focused on preventing and responding to the Coronavirus. These funds were targeted towards emergency mortgage, […]
Lovin’ U Tour Stops in Downtown Champaign
On August 19, 2021, the Neighborhood Services Department, Office of Equity, Community and Human Rights, and the Community Coalition partnered with Hip-Hop Express to host a Lovin’ U Block party/concert in Downtown Champaign. The Downtown Lovin’ U tour event was held from 9-11 pm in the heart of Champaign. Event participants were treated to hip […]
Temporary Parking Lot Closure
Parking Lot to be Temporarily Closed for Lovin’ U Block Party In order to host the City’s Downtown Lovin’ U Tour stop, parts of the parking lot at the intersection of Neil Street and Washington Street will be temporarily closed on Thursday, August 19, 2021, between 7:00 a.m. and midnight. The southern portion of the […]
Neighborhood Safety Meeting Held at Champaign Park Apartments
Neighborhood Safety Meeting Held at Champaign Park Apartments The Community Violence Response Task Force (CVRT), a working group of the Champaign County Community Coalition, hosted a Neighborhood Safety Meeting at Champaign Park Apts. on Monday, August 16. City staff Mary Catherine Roberson (ECHO) and John Ruffin (NSD) assisted with facilitation of the event, sharing information […]
Lovin’ U Campaign
On Wednesday August 11, the Neighborhood Services Department in Partnership with the Office of Equity, Community and Human Rights (ECHO), continued its Lovin’ U Tour with the second of a series of neighborhood-based block parties in the Garden Hills Neighborhood. The Lovin’ U Tour is designed to proactively engage neighborhoods throughout the city with resources […]