Good Reads: 2/26/19

This photo is pretty neat

Just two cities are in recession. Who’s unhappy? Elmira, New York and Danville, Illinois

Danville was featured in USA Today for being one of two American cities still in a recession.

(Paul Davidson / USA Today)

Illini basketball plays Purdue tomorrow

In West Lafayette.

Yikes.

Read The Champaign Room‘s scouting report here.

At least we’ll always have this:

Put in an under .500 Illinois team… would be mass chaos
— Illini Nation (@illinination14) February 26, 2019

Best 10 win team in the country. https://t.co/K67N1NTmXy
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) February 26, 2019

Power Ranking The Best 10 Win Teams In NCAAB

1. Illinois 10-17
2. Georgia 10-17
3. Oklahoma State 10-17
4. Wake Forest 10-16
5. Arkansas-Little Rock 10-17
— Big Cat (@BarstoolBigCat) February 26, 2019

Here’s the Champaign trampoline park review we’ve all been waiting for

Hell yeah.

(Amy Cunningham / ChambanaMoms)

Push for electric scooters comes to Champaign-Urbana

Vroom vroom!

(Lauren Kostiuk / WCCU)

Chancellor on Chief appearance: ‘Antithetical to what I thought we had all agreed to’

(Julie Wurth / News-Gazette)

Student proposes historical UI mascot

Not bad!

(Ethan Simmons / Daily Illini)

U of I College In Prison Program Receives $90,000 Grant

(Lee Gaines / Illinois Public Media)

Rep. Rodney Davis just keeps on lyin

Woof!

This unrealistic, massive government-run proposal calls for:
-Eliminating air travel
-Replacing cars with electric vehicles
-Public transportation available to everyone
-Upgrading or replacing every building in the U.S.
— US Rep Rodney Davis (@RodneyDavis) February 26, 2019