Champaign County

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Like Champaign County up north? So just like 30 minutes away? Okay, so it's not too far.

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Yeah, nice temperature right now in Champaign County at about 70 in the car thermometer.

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Uh, it's 7:34 and oh yeah, it's Thursday.

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Yeah, we do have an election coming up November 3.

Champaign County is looking for election judges.

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Coming up, we'll talk about the commodity markets with Greg Johnson.

He's at TGM, that's Total Grain Marketing, the elevator right here in Champaign County.

We'll go through this morning's grain stocks report and talk as well as about what that meant for the marketplace, of course.

Then we'll turn our attention to the weather forecast with Tu Lerner, who's at World Weather Incorporated in Kansas City.

Here's a look at local news.

Well, Champaign County Chamber of Commerce releasing a weekend update.

It shows local small businesses continue to struggle with staffing shortages.

Retail and food service employers reporting difficulty filling part-time roles while manufacturing firms say skilled trade applicants remain limited.

Affecting pickup times for elementary and middle school students.

They're working with the Illinois State Board of Education to accelerate driver certification for new hires.

Champaign County Court docketed adding several weekend pretrial hearings tied to ongoing felony cases.

That includes weapons charges, aggravated battery and retail theft.

He's at GlobalComResearch.com in Atchison, Kansas.

And Eric Snodgrass will join us from right here in Champaign County at Nutrien Ag Solutions in Daggerville.

He'll help us explore the weather forecast for the harvest season here and the planting season in Brazil.

Along the way, you'll hear, if you can stay with us for the whole of the hour, all of our Commodity Week program with Arlen Suderman, Dave Chatterton, and Ted Seifried.

Make that phone call now, 217-BIG-WILL, or go online at willgive.org. Greg Johnson from TGM Total Grain Marketing now joins us to discuss the marketplace.

He's here in Champaign County.

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Thanks for being with us.

A planned nursing home in Savoy may get county help, but not as much as backers wanted.

Advocates for Aging Care asking Champaign County for $1 million towards startup costs at a committee meeting Tuesday.

Board members Stephanie Hurtado proposed $250,000 instead of calling it practical given the county's budget.

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I don't see it getting washed out, a weather delay during the game.

Maybe short-lived just because of stuff in the general proximity.

Looks like more and more that this boundary, this warm front will become stationary and literally sit right on top of almost Champaign County here.

You go up north maybe into Ford and Iroquois, and much of Saturday will be wet, and there are numbers coming out, whether you do it by hand or do it by machine, of six inches over a pretty wide area from the Twin Cities down to Cedar Rapids.

Partly sunny, hot, humid days worth of weather and a little patchy fog around as well for the next hour or two.

We'll watch for a couple of showers and thunderstorms this morning past, especially north and northeast of Champaign and Champaign County.

A little closer to home this afternoon and evening time.

But until then, up to about 92 today.

But it'll be short term.

In the meantime, a day's worth of weather that features a partly sunny sky, some patchy fog around this morning, and heat and humidity anywhere as on up around 92.

A couple of showers and thunderstorms will pass to the north and northeast of Champaign and Champaign County.

Later this morning and this afternoon, slightly better odds this evening with a warm, humid low down to 68.