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The Morning Brief
Champaign–Urbana, IL • Saturday, October 10, 2026
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Today ☁️ 83° / 53° dew 46° dry | Sun ☁️ 80° / 57° dew 56° comfortable | Mon ☁️ 89° / 64° dew 56° comfortable | Tue 🌧 88° / 68° dew 63° sticky |
| | Today: Bring a light jacket (feels like 54° at 7 am). Sunset at 6:20 pm. |
| TODAY — Saturday, October 10 | | Live Music | | all day | ★ Day schedule · Rose Bowl Tavern | | 12:00 pm | ★ CU Folk & Roots Festival · The Urbana Free Library Join us for an afternoon of music performances and culture! | | 7:30 pm | ★ Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra: Mahler's Third Symphony · Foellinger Great Hall To open its 67th season, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra is joined by the University of Illinois Women’s Glee Club and the Central Illinois… | | 9:00 pm | ★ Old To The New: Ideal DJ Wesjile · Cowboy Monkey | | Everything Else | | 9:30 am | Reentry Simulation and Panel Discussion hosted by Education Justice Project · University YMCA Gain a deeper understanding of the complex systems and structural barriers that impact successful reentry after incarceration. | | 10:00 am | History and Heritage Day · 421 N 4th St, Brooklyn Join the Historical Society of Brooklyn, Illinois (HSOBI) on History and Heritage Day, as we celebrate the installation of a plaque on the Mother… | | 10:00 am | Kampsville Knap-In · McCully Heritage Project The annual Kampsville Knap-In features flintknapping demonstrations and tutorials, an atl-atl range, a game field for Chunkey and Cherokee Marbles… | | 10:30 am | ● Curator Talk & Tour | "In Search of a Future" at Krannert Art Museum · Krannert Art Museum Join Kathryn Koca Polite for a special tour of In Search of a Future. | | 11:00 am | ● Conversation Café · The Urbana Free Library Language Exchange - Intercambio de Idiomas - Échange Linguistique | | 11:00 am | Japan House Fall Open House - Japan House's Past, Present, and Future · Japan House Please join Japan House for tea ceremonies and learn about Japan House's history and vision for the future with the Ogura-Sato Annex. | | 12:00 pm | ● Fall Family Fun Fest at John Street Pickleball Courts · 2301-2315 W John Street, 2301-2315 W John Street Kick off fall break with an afternoon of free family fun at the John Street Pickleball Courts! | | 12:00 pm | ● Illini Softball vs Illinois Wesleyan · Eichelberger Field | | 1:30 pm | Cookie Queens: DoctoberFest A celebration of girlhood and the complexities that come with it, Cookie Queens is a coming-of-age story about the joys, pressures… | | 2:00 pm | 2nd Annual Downtown Champaign Craft Crawl · Farren's at The Inman | | 2:00 pm | ● Brewery Tour and Tasting · Riggs Beer Company | | 2:00 pm | ● Latin American Story Time · The Urbana Free Library | | 3:00 pm | ● Fall Fusion Festival · Downtown Urbana Library staff will have an activity for all ages at the festival! | | 3:00 pm | ● LEGO Club · Main Library | | 3:30 pm | Joybubbles: DoctoberFest A boy discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. | | 4:00 pm | ● A Decade of Delicious: Harvest Market Fresh · Harvest Market, The Nook | | 4:00 pm | ● Illini Softball vs Spoon River · Eichelberger Field | | 6:00 pm | ● The Last Picture Shows: DoctoberFest Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. | | 8:00 pm | All Rockstars Go To Hell Tour · The Space | | 8:00 pm | ● Pinball: Beyond The Bumpers: DoctoberFest Pinball: Beyond The Bumpers is the most complete and visually dynamic documentary ever made about Pinball. | | 9:00 pm | India Ferrah drag show · Amy's Place |
| | TOMORROW — Sunday, October 11 | | Live Music | | 3:00 pm | ★ Occasional Cajun Band · Rose Bowl Tavern The Occasional Cajun Band plays a mix of traditional Cajun, Creole and Zydeco music. | | 7:00 pm | ★ Max Osawa Chordless Trio FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern Maxwell Osawa returns to Chambana to reimagine popular and lesser-known jazz standards in a contemporary chordless trio setting. | | Everything Else | | 10:00 am | ● World of Genomics · Griffin Museum of Science and Industry Join us for the interactive, hands-on science experience that is World of Genomics, featuring multiple stations focused on specific aspects of… | | 12:00 pm | ● Silver Screamers: DoctoberFest · Savoy 16 + IMAX with Laser Faced with budget limitations for traditional documentary financing, filmmaker Sean Cisterna taps into a government funding subsidy aimed at keeping… | | 2:00 pm | ● A Brief History Of Chasing Storms: DoctoberFest · Savoy 16 + IMAX with Laser From The Wizard of Oz to the Twister movies, the tornado has become an iconic American symbol. | | 4:30 pm | CatVideoFest 2026 · Savoy 16 + IMAX with Laser Our fuzzy overlords return to the big screen! | | 5:00 pm | ● Monthly FF Advisory Board Social · 801 W Oregon St, Urbana Club advisory board members + private screening |
| | ONGOING | | ongoing | ★ 2026 CU Folk & Roots Festival · Rose Bowl Tavern through Sat, Oct 10 The 18th Annual CU Folk and Roots Festival in Urbana, IL! | | 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 | ● [I] Illini Women's Tennis vs ITA Midwest Regionals · Atkins Tennis Center through Sun, Oct 11 | | 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 | ● Fall Pickleball Tournament Extravaganza · 2203 W John Street, 2203 W John Street through Sun, Oct 11 Join players from across the region for our Fall in Love with Pickleball Tournament – a two-day outdoor event featuring exciting competition… | | 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! | | ongoing | ● Morrow Plots Exhibit: These Plots Are Older Than We Are · 220 Corridor Exhibition Space, Main Library through Thu, Oct 29 The University of Illinois is home to the world's oldest crop rotation study and a piece of living history - the Morrow Plots. | | 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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Who we called: UI Campus Calendar (14 listings); Champaign Park District (3 listings); Champaign Public Library (1 listing); Chambana Film Society (8 listings); Parkland College (0 listings); Visit Downtown Champaign (0 listings); Cowboy Monkey (1 listing); Eventbrite (Champaign, IL) (7 listings); Rose Bowl Tavern (4 listings); Urbana Free Library (4 listings); Eventbrite (Urbana, IL) (3 listings); Eventbrite (Savoy, IL) (2 listings).
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