Local coverage
Project conversations across Champaign County.
Coverage depends on independent provider availability. Each page below explains useful housing and site context for that community.
Urbana
Most of Urbana's historic core was built or rebuilt after the October 9, 1871 fire that destroyed much of the young city, and the plumbing systems installed during that late-1800s and early-1900s construction boom have been patched, replaced, and added to for well over a century since.
Local planning notes →Savoy
Savoy incorporated in 1956 and stayed a small village for decades before becoming Champaign County's fastest-growing municipality from 2000 to 2024, more than doubling in size.
Local planning notes →Mahomet
Mahomet was platted in 1832 specifically because the Sangamon River offered settlers reliable water, making it the first community established in what is now Champaign County.
Local planning notes →Rantoul
Chanute Field operated from 1917 to 1993, and the water and sewer infrastructure built to serve a working Air Force technical-training base for 76 years wasn't designed around ordinary residential growth.
Local planning notes →St. Joseph
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Local planning notes →Tolono
Tolono incorporated in 1865 around an 1856 rail junction, with a population originally built around railroad employment rather than farming, and its early water infrastructure grew up to serve that junction-town population.
Local planning notes →Monticello
The historic homes along Monticello's State Street, nicknamed Millionaires Row, and the Allerton mansion built 1899-1903 were constructed with more elaborate systems -- plumbing included -- than a standard Piatt County farmhouse of the same era.
Local planning notes →Villa Grove
The Frisco railroad rebuilt Villa Grove after 1902 specifically because the Embarras River could supply the water a division point needed, platting a new townsite with repair shops on 260 acres.
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