Former Peoria Fire Chief Chuck Lauss is Mayor Diane Marlin’s pick to be the new fire chief for Urbana. City Council members will vote on the mayor’s nomination Monday night.

Events in east-central Illinois on Sunday, September 11th, will remember the victims of the 2001 Sept. 11th attacks, as well as the firefighters and police who came to rescue them, sometimes at the cost of their own lives.

Champaign fire officials said fire crews would remain at the Alloy Engineering and Casting foundry on the city’s west side on Saturday, to put out any spot fires, following the three-alarm blaze that burned there for more than five hours overnight.  Later Saturday, officials there were eager to begin assessing the damage, and to see what it would take to get the site up and going again.