It is also home to more than 58,600 residents ??? nearly one in three ??? who are impoverished or near poverty, according to 2007 Census Bureau data.So report freelance writers Shelley Smithson and Pam G. Dempsey for The News-Gazette of Champaign-Urbana, in the first of a series to engage citizens, educators and other media in an ongoing examination of poverty and its related issues in Champaign