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The Morning Brief
Champaign–Urbana, IL • Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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Today ☁️ 76° / 63° dew 52° dry | Thu 🌧 81° / 64° dew 61° comfortable 83% rain | Fri 🌧 71° / 52° dew 50° dry 70% rain | Sat ☀️ 72° / 48° dew 45° dry |
| | Today: No jacket or umbrella needed today. Sunset at 6:36 pm. |
| TODAY — Wednesday, September 30 | | | TOMORROW — Thursday, October 01 | | Live Music | | 12:00 pm | ★ SoundBites lunchtime live music series featuring CAM CAMRYN · 310 N Neil St, Champaign Take a mid‑day break and enjoy SoundBites, our lunchtime live music series on the Downtown Plaza Stage! | | 5:00 pm | ★ Americana Happy Hour with The Chickadee Sermon · Rose Bowl Tavern The Chickadee Sermon sound emphasizes vocal harmony and delicate instrumentation with acoustic guitars, banjo, string bass and melodica. | | 5:30 pm | ★ Krannert Center Uncorked: Olmeca · Stage 5 Olmeca Live Performance: Hip Hop As An "Act of Radical Love" A Hip Hop Cultural Expression of the Heart Olmeca's live performance is rooted in… | | 7:00 pm | ★ JOHN SUMMIT - CTRL ESCAPE ARENA TOUR · State Farm Center Dance music powerhouse and University of Illinois Alumni John Summit announces his North American CTRL ESCAPE arena tour. | | 7:30 pm | ★ University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra · Foellinger Great Hall Conductor: Matthew Sheppard Graduate Conductors: Simon Tiffin, Victor Yip Program Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide Clarence Cameron: Elegy, Op. | | 8:00 pm | ★ Cumbia Y Mas with DJ Wesjile · Cowboy Monkey | | 8:00 pm | ★ The Coalition FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern Join the Coalition on a cool October evening and sacrifice your soul for rock n' roll... | | Everything Else | | all day | ● IHLS Library Crawl · The Urbana Free Library Visit the Library during October to receive your passport and start your crawl. | | all day | ● Make and Take Craft · The Urbana Free Library Do you like crafts and making things? | | 11:00 am | ● 2027 Medicare Educational Seminar & Mail Review Workshop · Champaign Public Library | | 5:30 pm | Conversation Café @ Health and Wellness Center · Health and Wellness Center Language Exchange - Intercambio de Idiomas - Échange Linguistique | | 6:00 pm | ● SPEAK Café at Krannert Art Museum | October 2026 · Krannert Art Museum SPEAK stands for Song, Poetry, Art, and Knowledge. | | 7:00 pm | Real Money Talk: Games, Trivia & Live Podcast · 1401 W Green St |
| | ONGOING | | ongoing | 2027 Park Board Election: Packet Pickup · Bresnan Meeting Center through Fri, Nov 20 Two Champaign Park District Park Board of Commissioners seats on the ballot in 2027. | | ongoing | ● Artist Showcase: Kuhu Shukla 🎨 · 1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana through Fri, Dec 11 Join the Asian American Cultural Center for an Artist Showcase featuring Kuhu Shukla and her exhibition, Not Mine Only Held. | | ongoing | ● Last Week on View | "Rest Lab 10: Path" Exhibition · Krannert Art Museum through Fri, Oct 2 Don't miss the final week of Rest Lab 10: Path, curated by Kamila Glowacki and Ishita Dharap. | | ongoing | ● Library Friends Exhibit : Celebrating Pride: 50+ Years of LGBTQ+ History at Illinois · Display Cases near Main Stacks, Main Library through Fri, Oct 30 Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month by exploring 50+ years of LGBTQ+ student history at the University of Illinois! | | repeats | ● Project Read Game Night · The Urbana Free Library Wed, Thu at 4:00 pm This is your chance to meet some awesome people, play some games, and learn more about our program. | | ongoing | Youth Literature Festival, Community Day · 220 Corridor Exhibition Space through Wed, Sep 30 The Youth Literature Festival brings award-winning authors of youth literature to area schools in a three-day event… | | ongoing | ● “I could people the hours with creations” — Celebrating Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein · Main Library Room 346 through Thu, May 13 This exhibition provides some context for the writing of Frankenstein and examines the significant cultural impact that it has had since its… |
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Listings compiled from 12 of 12 sources.
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Who we called: UI Campus Calendar (10 listings); Champaign Park District (1 listing); Champaign Public Library (2 listings); Chambana Film Society (0 listings); Parkland College (0 listings); Visit Downtown Champaign (1 listing); Cowboy Monkey (1 listing); Eventbrite (Champaign, IL) (2 listings); Rose Bowl Tavern (5 listings); Urbana Free Library (5 listings); Eventbrite (Urbana, IL) (2 listings); Eventbrite (Savoy, IL) (0 listings).
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