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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 24/06/2026

Spent 90 minutes with C-U's Congolese community to understand what a half-century World Cup drought means to them; ended up learning a lot more. My latest, out now on both the blog and on @smilepolitely.com: www.champaignshowers.com/world-cup-on...

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 01/06/2026

sorry I missed your call I was too busy deciding who to vote for in the gazoo's people's choice 2026 (arts + entertainment section, video gaming category)

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 01/03/2026

a group of locals in town are organizing against Flock Safety. you can learn why, sign the petition, and sign up for more updates at stopflock.org

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 19/09/2025

that's why, instead of ephemeral shit talk, i propose the opposite: an opportunity. join your comrades in illinois. we have legal weed, clean water (so far), students can vote, and certain populations have many more rights here. welcome home, monroe county.

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 19/09/2025

monroe county is actually more libbed up than illinois, let alone the state of indiana.

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 15/04/2025

this right here is exactly why I do this contest every year. :')

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 15/04/2025

Congrats to this year's bracket winner: Julian! Julian (and his service dog Sprite, pictured) chose to make their $500 donation to Illini Service Dogs, a cause very close to Julian's heart. For the gift card, he chose a variety of goodies from Live Action Games, Titan Games and Enchantment Alley.

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 24/03/2025

love to listen to my favorite basketball teams on my favorite radio station, news talk 1400, wdws

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 24/03/2025

delayed reaction but this one got me. laughing thru the paign.

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 19/03/2025

coming to you live from either Oz or Danville's Mary Miller Gymnasium (not that Mary Miller) for tonight's Parkland elite eight game.

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 17/03/2025

can't articulate this thought very well, but this context-less St Patrick's Day post is just one of the many reasons why Huber's is the best bar in town

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 17/03/2025

The 5th annual Showers Bracket Contest is live! -Free. $0. Costs nothing. Fee-less. -Winner gets a $500 donation to a C-U non-profit + a $250 gift card to a local small biz of their choice -One entry/person -Be great and believe in yourself and no one else. bigtourney.com/madness/fsit...

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 08/03/2025

low effort meme i forgot to post yday, my bad won't happen again

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 07/03/2025

according to champaign showers' best of c-u 2025, champaign showers is the best blog in town:

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 26/02/2025

one of the goofiest things about the carle discourse, despite the fact that their ceo makes $5.6 mil + they just axed health insurance for most of C-U, is that they charge for parking. so they can profit off of you while you visit a sick loved one or drive yourself for care.

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 25/02/2025

the vibe on the illini subreddit has gone through a few evolutions this year.

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 23/02/2025

in fairness to brad he did bring up an infallible point post game. if we had made more baskets the game would have been closer. that's just a fact. check mate, haters.

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Champaign Showers @champaignshowers.com · 18/02/2025

local news rules because occasionally it will be relevant in the national discourse,,,for example: a local biz from springfield is flexing that they did (217 residents) chris kattan and his wife's spray tan before the snl 50th anniversary show: