Items tagged: historical

Downtown Champaign Commercial District Receives Designation on National Register of Historic Places

The City of Champaign is proud to announce that on January 24, 2020, the United States Department of the Interior and National Park Service added the Champaign Downtown Commercial District to the National Register of Historic Places as a Historic District. The new Champaign Downtown Commercial District contains 52 contributing and 11 non-contributing structures and […]


Planning Staff Partners with Historic Resources Survey

The Planning and Development Department will be working with undergraduate and graduate students from the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Illinois during the month of October to survey homes in the City of Champaign. This is a continuation of a historic resources survey project complete last year in the Davidson […]


Planning and Development, Plan Commission and Historic Preservation Commission Tour of Former Coca-Cola Bottling Plant (Papa Del’s Pizza)

On February 20, members of the City of Champaign Historic Preservation Commission, Plan Commission and Planning and Development Department Staff attended a tour of the Former Coca-Cola Bottling Plant at 1201 South Neil Street. Over the past year, Robert Monti has restored and the historic Art Deco factory into the new home of Papa Del’s […]


City of Champaign to Preserve and Increase Accessibility to Historical Documents

  At their January 26, 2016, meeting, the Champaign City Council approved a project to preserve Council documents from the City’s inception through the present. This project will also make the documents more accessible to both historians and members of the general public. The documents to be preserved include City Council meeting minutes, resolutions, and […]