More Urbana Updates

There were some additional City of Urbana updates that I missed or have popped up since the last Urbana Updates post here. I don't have updates on the Ward 6 vacancy yet. The deadline for applying for the Ward 6 vacancy on the City Council has passed and we're awaiting news on that as early as this week. There are, however, two vacancies on Urbana's Human Relations Commission that deals with enforcing the Urbana Human Rights Ordinance and discrimination complaints. And parts of Downtown Urbana were added to the National Registry of Historic Places. More details on both below.

Urbana's Human Relations Commission has a couple vacancies for people interested in applying for appointment to that board. The City of Urbana's twitter feed had some basic information below (click to enlarge):

More information is available from the City's website here. The application link is broken at the moment, but is also available here until it is fixed.


More information about the downtown area being placed on the historic register from WILL here:

For decades, the people of Urbana have marveled at the architecture of the county courthouse, built in 1901, and dozens of other buildings in its downtown. Now the historic downtown district is receiving national recognition. This week, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced the Downtown Urbana Historic District is one of 12 Illinois sites added to the National Register of Historic Places.  A press release from the IDNR says there are 41 historical properties throughout the historic district, including the courthouse, the Urbana Free Library and former U.S. Post Office. Other businesses represent 19th and 20th century architectual styles including Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Classical Revival, and Tudor Revival. Being listed on the National Register of Historic Places means qualify for federal grants or consideration during federal project planning. Also the sites become eligible for some tax provisions.

More from the WILL daily "News Around Illinois" article here. Parts of downtown Champaign were also added to the National Registry recently. That is in a separate Champaign Updates post here.