🌱 Eagle's Nest High School Food Pantry and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: What did the little needle say to the mother needle when it brought home a failing report card? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Mist, breezy; fog in the a.m., with a high of 49 and low of 46 degrees.
• Friday: Partly sunny and breezy, temps: high: 60, low: 40.
• Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 53 and low of 43 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday December 25

• Eagle's Nest High School Food Pantry
  Community Service Center of Northern Champaign County , 520 E Wabash Ave , Rantoul
  12:30 pm

Friday December 26

• BKB G V Home Holiday Hoopla
  Monticello CUSD 25 , 1 Sage Drive , Monticello
  10:00 am
• BKB B V Home Holiday Hoopla
  Monticello CUSD 25 , 1 Sage Dr , Monticello
  10:00 am
• Movie Matinee
  Rantoul Public Library , 106 West Flessner Avenue , Rantoul
  2:00 pm
• Candlelight: Christmas Carols on Strings
  Orpheum Champaign , 346 N Neil St , Champaign
  6:30 pm

Saturday December 27

• Brewery Tour And Tasting (2025)
  Riggs Beer Company , 1901 S High Cross Rd , Urbana
  2:00 pm

Monday December 29

• No School - Christmas Break
  Fisher CUSD 1 Fisher, IL 61843
• Open interviews
  Champaign County Chamber of Commerce , 303 W Kirby Ave , Champaign
  9:00 am
• WR B V Home The Rumble in the Land of Lincoln
  Monticello CUSD 25 , 1 Convention Center Plaza , Springfield
  10:00 am

Tuesday December 30

• WR B V Away The Rumble in the Land of Lincoln
  Monticello CUSD 25 , 1 Convention Center Plaza , Springfield
  9:00 am

Wednesday December 31

• Library Closed for New Year's
  Swearingen Memorial Library , 201 N 3rd St , St Joseph
• 9:30 pm Comedian Paul Farahvar New Years Eve Show!
  Yellow & Co. , 1830 Patton Dr #2 , Mahomet
  9:30 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Mahomet

• Tuesday's prep highlights: SJ-O boys' basketball rallies past BHRA (news-gazette.com)

Champaign

• Champaign's downtown plaza project entering final phase in 2026 (wcia.com)
• PET OF THE WEEK: Road trip to Moore's Rescue Ranch – and Duane reads the kitties a book (chambanatoday.com)
• Illinois State Police marks 25 years of Scott's Law (wcia.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I guess I’m not as sharp as I thought.
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