Champaign Leaders to Announce $15.7M Grant at Press Conference

Champaign leaders will hold a press conference at noon April 21 at Alma Mater Plaza on the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Campus. The purpose of the press conference is to announce the launch of the Multimodal Corridor Enhancement (MCORE) Project funded in part by a $15.7 million Federal TIGER grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. MCORE, a partnership between the city of Champaign, city of Urbana, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the Champaign Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD), will improve mobility in the communities’ core.

This $35 million overall project will have a transformative impact unlike any previous transportation project in the communities’ history. This exciting new project will bring streets to a state of good repair while enhancing connections between the Cities’ downtown centers and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus.