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Champion Fitness Physical Therapy will open its door to the Mahomet community Thursday during a Customer Appreciation Day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will kick-off with the Mahomet Chamber of Commerce celebrating the business with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10:45 a.m. Following the ribbon cutting, guests can enjoy lunch or register… Read more

Coming home is always a pleasure for musician Matt Ellis. “When I can, I like to go out for walks and drives, and just enjoy the peaceful feeling of the town,” Ellis said. A 2005 graduate of Mahomet-Seymour High School, Ellis now lives in Springfield where he enjoys writing and performing music. Ellis grew up… Read more

Conner Hearn, a Mahomet-Seymour High School senior, spent the first four weeks of his summer vacation with the Education for Employment System at Parkland College learning about trade jobs he could pursue after graduation. Hearn, who has studied and loves mechanics, decided to join the Summer Construction Education Program because he loves to work. “I… Read more

As I pulled into downtown Tuscola with my two daughters in the car, my 11-year old spotted a 5-cent soda advertisement painted along the side of Flesor’s Candy Kitchen. She yelled, “5-cent sodas?!” I told her sodas definitely cost more the 5-cents now. She asked, “Were sodas five-cents when you were alive?” (Meaning when I… Read more

In today’s day and age, it seems art can be found everywhere. All we really need to do is log onto a computer and browse through a few sites before we find what we are really looking for. But for The Vault owner, Jon McDevitt, and almost 80 artists from Central Illinois, art is nothing… Read more

A high-end tattoo parlor in rural Illinois? It’s not what you expect, and definitely not what many visitors are looking for as they shop for antiques along Main Street in Tuscola, but nestled in the old brick buildings, you will Vintage Karma. Vintage Karma started off solely as a tattoo studio eight years ago in… Read more

When we moved to Mahomet 13 years ago, I quickly figured out that a quick drive down Interstate 57 would land me in the land of quality clothing at a discount: the Tanger Outlet Mall of Tuscola. At that time, my in laws also lived in Mahomet, and we frequented the Amishland Red Barn Buffet… Read more

Seth Emerson wants to give you a night off from cooking. Is your kitchen 85 degrees in the summer before you turn on the oven? Did you have an afternoon meeting that just wouldn’t end? Do you need to feed the kids something before you shuttle them on to their evening activity but don’t have… Read more

Directions [one_half]This trip will take about 1 hour and 40 minutes. The problem with Illinois State Parks is that nothing is marked appropriately. Unless you know where you’re going, parks in this state are hard to find. Just keep your eyes open for the Matthiessen State Park sign. Take I-74 West towards Bloomington, IL (44… Read more