champaign county

It began when a man saw something bright in the late afternoon sky, but it wasn't a planet, star or anything he'd seen before. He then noticed military jets in formation nearby. The unidentified object then moved as it appeared to be fleeing from the approaching planes over Illinois.

I've learned a couple of things over the last 24 hours that I never knew before. One, there are places called Dark Sky Parks, and two, Illinois has one in a forest preserve about 3 hours from Rockford.

I've learned a couple of things over the last 24 hours that I never knew before. One, there are places called Dark Sky Parks, and two, Illinois has one in a forest preserve about 3 hours from Rockford.

Dave Dahl -- Illinois Radio Network Illinois now has a new worry: symptoms of bacterial leaf stripe has been detected on samples of corn leaves in Champaign County. “We had to go through a tedious process of identification,” says Suzanne Bissonnette, director of the University of Illinois Plant Clinic, “sequencing the DNA and whatnot, and what we ended up with was this bacterial stripe on corn...