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The Morning Brief
Champaign–Urbana, IL • Friday, October 23, 2026
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Today ☁️ 72° / 45° dew 41° dry | Sat ☁️ 72° / 47° dew 37° dry | Sun ☁️ 74° / 53° dew 41° dry | Mon ☁️ 74° / 56° dew 43° dry |
| | Today: Bring a coat (feels like 43° at 7 am). Sunset at 6:01 pm. |
| TODAY — Friday, October 23 | | | TOMORROW — Saturday, October 24 | | Live Music | | 10:30 am | ★ Monster Mash Halloween Dance Workshop · Springer Cultural Center Come learn some original choreography to the famous “Monster Mash” song! | | 11:00 am | ★ Flannel Fest · West Side Park Grab your flannel and get ready for CU’s ultimate fall festival! | | 1:00 pm | ★ Thriller Halloween Dance Workshop · Springer Cultural Center Come learn some famous Michael Jackson choreography to “Thriller”!This jazzy/hip hop piece will be something fun to share with friends and family in… | | 7:00 pm | ★ The Midwest Franchising Tour: Sock Jock · The Cosmo Sock Jock with Special Guests Pool Chair, The Critters, Leeloh, Scarlet's Darling, and Hollow | | 7:30 pm | ★ Kojiro Umezaki & Hub New Music: a distance, intertwined · Foellinger Great Hall Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” (Boston Globe), Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). | | 8:00 pm | ★ Matt North Record Release w/ Don Henry · Rose Bowl Tavern with special guest: Grammy Winner , DON HENRY | | 8:00 pm | ★ Smells like Nirvana · The City Center | | 9:00 pm | ★ Let it Rot wsg Haunter · Cowboy Monkey Something rotten is headed to Champaign for spooky season. | | Everything Else | | 8:00 am | ● Science at the Market: Graduates in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (GEEB) · Urbana's Farmer's Market at the Square | | 10:30 am | Sensory-Friendly: One World, One Sky · Staerkel Planetarium The Staerkel Planetarium offers matinée shows with sensory-friendly settings on selected Saturdays. | | 11:30 am | Sensory-Friendly: Spooky Space · Staerkel Planetarium The Staerkel Planetarium offers matinée shows with sensory-friendly settings on selected Saturdays. | | 2:00 pm | ● Illini Football vs Oregon - Military Appreciation | Foundation Weekend · Gies Memorial Stadium | | 2:00 pm | ● Jump Into Science · The Urbana Free Library Learn about Moire Magic with the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. | | 2:00 pm | ● Public Tour: LGTBQ+ History Month · Spurlock Museum This 45-minute tour explores femininity, masculinity, love, and desire as the people of the ancient mediterranean would have understood them… | | 3:00 pm | ● The Painkillers FREE · Rose Bowl Tavern Never a cover, always a good time with great music and drinks. | | 4:00 pm | Portugal 101: Big Wines, Small Prices · Harvest Market, The Nook |
| | 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 | ● Book Display Celebrating Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' 35th Anniversary · International and Area Studies Library through Sat, Nov 14 | | repeats | ● Last Week on View · Krannert Art Museum Fri, Sat at 10:00 am Don't miss the final week of Stitching Ecologies: Urbana-Champaign Satellite Crochet Coral Reef. | | 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. | | repeats | ● Tag Bag Sale · FriendShop Bookstore Fri, Sat at 1:00 pm Bring your own bag the size of a paper grocery bag or fill a library tote. | | repeats | Violent Universe · Staerkel Planetarium Fri 8:00 pm, Sat 2:00 pm Comets, asteroids and meteoroids hurtling through space; stars collapsing under their own gravity… | | repeats | Winnie the Pooh · Second Stage - Black Box Theatre Fri, Sat at 7:30 pm Adapted by Sean Patrick Nill | | 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 15 of 15 sources.
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Who we called: UI Campus Calendar (18 listings); Champaign Park District (4 listings); Champaign Public Library (3 listings); Chambana Film Society (0 listings); Parkland College (7 listings); Visit Downtown Champaign (0 listings); Cowboy Monkey (2 listings); Songkick (Champaign–Urbana) (0 listings); The City Center (1 listing); Eventbrite (Champaign, IL) (4 listings); The Cosmo (2 listings); Rose Bowl Tavern (4 listings); Urbana Free Library (2 listings); Eventbrite (Urbana, IL) (3 listings); Eventbrite (Savoy, IL) (3 listings).
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