A project to reimagine downtown Urbana through arts-based dialogues led by youth.

The IMC houses an art gallery featuring rotating exhibits.

WRFU-LP, 104.5 FM is an IMC-affliated and fiscally sponsored working group that operates a low-power public access community radio station located at the IMC.

UC Books to Prisoners is an Urbana Illinois based project providing books to Illinois inmates at no cost by mail as well as through two county jail libraries which we operate.

Enabling the blending of arts, humanities, science and technology. We provide an open community lab where people of diverse backgrounds can learn, teach, tinker, collaborate, share, innovate, socialize, and create.

For over a decade, the IMC has been a midwest nexus for zine making and collecting. The IMC has an amazing collection of zines available for members and visitors to enjoy. We hold open office hours on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month from 11-1.

The Public i is the only news-focused, collectively-run, non-profit newspaper in Urbana-Champaign. The paper is a project of the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and is organized and edited entirely by volunteer citizen-journalists. Our articles are written as much as possible by community members, who are telling the stories that affect their lives.

A base of more than one thousand volunteers represents the backbone of the UCIMC; they design and operate nearly all of our programs.