

Giving Tuesday: Support CCHM & CCNDI
The Champaign County Newspaper Digitization Initiative at the Champaign County History Museum is within $2,500 of the goal to scan the St. Joseph Record from 1940 to 1962 and convert it to a researchable digital format. Once it is converted, it will be available free of charge on the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection through the University of Illinois Library. https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/ Starting in December 1941, just after Pearl Harbor, Charles W. Dale, the edito
Will Best
Dec 22 min read


A New Digital Exhibition!
Willie Nelson / Photographed by Dennis Garrel Forty years ago, on September 22nd, 1985, Champaign County hosted its largest concert at Memorial Stadium. Following the success of the Live Aid concert, Farm Aid sought to elevate the struggles of small family-owned farms, which were at the time competing with an expansive, increasingly corporate agricultural economy, and extensive droughts. Over 78,000 people gathered at Memorial Stadium to attend hte 14-hour-long concert featur
Will Best
Sep 221 min read


CCNDI: The St. Joseph Record and Ogden Courier Live on the IDNC!
The history of rural communities is often inaccessible or lost. The Champaign County Newspaper Digitization Initiative’s (CCNDI) mission...
Will Best
Mar 26, 20242 min read


Indigenous Illinois: Ancient Stone Tools Join the CCHM Collection
By Sara Pfannkuche In July 2019 CCHM published an article entitled “Indigenous Illinois'' that was written by Jason Peterson detailing...
Sara Pfannkuche
May 24, 20238 min read


The Champaign County History Museum: A Researcher’s Guide
By Connor Monson What do you think about when you hear the word museum? For some it might unfortunately bring to mind thoughts of...
Connor Monson
Mar 6, 202310 min read


Museum Receives First Burnham Hospital Iron Lung from Martindale Family.
The story of Burnham Hospitals' first Iron Lung.
T.J. Blakeman, Board President
Jun 8, 20223 min read


A Bovine by Any Other Name
By Adele Suslick, Education Coordinator The Taste of Champaign attracted lots of people to West Side Park this past August for the city’s...
TJ Blakeman
Oct 4, 20182 min read


Champaign County History Museum Re-Opens after 18 months of renovation
After 18 months of hard work, the Champaign County History Museum is BACK! Thanks to the countless volunteers, donors and members the...
T.J. Blakeman, Board President
May 15, 20171 min read


Video Tour of the New Champaign County History Museum
Take a tour of the Champaign County History Museum with TJ Blakeman, president of the board of directors. Videographer/Producer: Rick...
Rick Danzl - News-Gazette
Apr 30, 20171 min read


A long time coming for Champaign County History Museum
CHAMPAIGN — The county now has a history museum for the future. The brand-new Champaign County History Museum has just opened, and it's...
Paul Wood - News-Gazette
Apr 30, 20171 min read
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