The News-Gazette, Inc. is an online news and advertising source in the east central Illinois. It offers local news, obituarie ... s, opinions, Web logs, chats, podcasts, photo galleries, special reports, calendar archives, business, sports facts, chats, little league, forums, answer book, community links, contests, places and faces, food, games, gas price watch, classifieds, and customer service. The company was founded in 1919 and is based in Champaign, Illinois. read more