Champaign County Health Care Consumers is inviting you to attend a rally this Saturday at West Side Park at noon.
This event is being organized as part of a national day of rallies around the country to fight back against the Trump Administration’s plans and ongoing efforts to dismantle vital national programs. People around the country are fighting against the Administration’s efforts to take away healthcare programs, data that drives policies, jobs, and services. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.
We hope you will join us for this important event.
Here are the details:
WHAT: Hands Off! Rally – Champaign County, IL Fights Back
WHEN: Saturday, April 5, 2025
TIME: 12 noon – 2 p.m. Central Time
WHERE: West Side Park – 400 W. University Ave., Champaign, IL 61820
CCHCC is urging Champaign residents to vote YES for the City of Champaign Township Tax Referendum. The following Guest Commentary by CCHCC’s Executive Director, Claudia Lennhoff, ran in The News-Gazette on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. Please also see the WCIA TV interview on the same topic.
For a relative small amount of money – about $5 more per month on a $100,000 home – Champaign residents can support the City of Champaign Township, which provides General Assistance and Rental Assistance to Champaign residents, and also operates the Strides Shelter. The City of Champaign Township also includes the Township Assessor’s office, which is currently understaffed.
Please vote YES on the property tax referendum on the ballot for residents of the City of Champaign.
The City of Champaign Township’s current tax levy is extremely low at 0.0296%. By comparison, the levy for Cunningham Township (in the city of Urbana) is about ten times greater at 0.3015%, and Decatur Township’s levy is even higher at 0.3527%.
The City of Champaign Township property tax levy will help fund vital services provided to Champaign residents, including rental assistance to prevent evictions, and General Assistance to provide financial support to residents with disabilities while they are applying for Disability income from SSI and/or SSDI – a grueling process that can take a very long time. The Township property tax will also help fund additional personnel for the Township Assessor’s Office, which will help support timely and fair property tax assessments for Champaign residents. Lastly, but not least, the property tax levy will help support the Strides Shelter, which is currently understaffed and at risk of closing due to lack of adequate funding.
Strides Shelter opened in 2023, thanks to a $750,000 ARPA grant provided by the City of Urbana. Other local governmental bodies, including the Champaign County Mental Health Board, also contribute to services provided at Strides by funding various nonprofit organizations that deliver services there. While Strides Shelter is located in Champaign, a tremendous amount of financial support for the services provided there come from other funding streams. Many non-profits collaborate to try to help Strides clients get back on their feet, while Strides provides the shelter they need.
If you live in the city of Champaign, you have an opportunity to cast a vote on the April 1st ballot to support funding for the STRIDES Homeless Shelter and homelessness-prevention efforts provided by the City of Champaign Township. The ballot initiative involves a slight property tax increase within the City of Champaign.
Champaign County Health Care Consumers (CCHCC) is urging Champaign residents to vote YES to this ballot initiative.
Vote YES Champaign Information Session Please join us for an informative panel discussion with local experts who will discuss the upcoming April 1 ballot measure to fund the City of Champaign Township and its Rental Assistance Program and the Strides Shelter.
WHEN: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 TIME: 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. WHERE: Champaign Public Library, Robeson Pavilion C (first floor); 200 W. Green St., Champaign
About the Property Tax Levy Voters in the City of Champaign will see the proposed property tax levy on their ballots. The measure reads as follows:
I won’t sugarcoat this – we need your help immediately in order to try to save the Medicaid program. If you can, please make these phone calls TODAY, before 5 p.m.
The House is set to vote on their budget resolution today, which includes massive cuts to Medicaid. Hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans will lose their access to healthcare if this budget resolution passes. Help us flood Rep. Bost, LaHood, and Miller’s phones TODAY to say NO to this budget resolution, and NO to Medicaid cuts! Use the phone numbers and sample language below to get started.
Please call as many of these Representatives as possible! Also, please share this message with other people so that they can help make calls as well. CCHCC will provide updates on an ongoing basis.
If you live in the city of Champaign, you have an opportunity to cast a vote to support funding for the STRIDES Homeless Shelter and homelessness-prevention efforts provided by the City of Champaign Township. The ballot initiative involves a slight property tax increase within the City of Champaign.
Champaign County Health Care Consumers (CCHCC), along with the County’s Continuum of Service Providers to the Homeless (CSPH), are urging Champaign residents to vote YES to this ballot initiative.
