Month: March 2022

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“Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing” will be shown at Knight Auditorium on March 28th

Urbana, Ill. — A free screening of the documentary film by a Southern Illinois University Carbondale professor that retraces the battle over commercial logging within the Shawnee National Forest more than three decades ago will be shown next week in Champaign. “Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing” by Cade Bursell, a […]

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CCFPD receives GFOA’s Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting

(Chicago, Illinois)—Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) hasawarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting to Champaign County ForestPreserve District for its annual comprehensive financial report for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2020. The report has been judged by an impartial panel […]