Skaters from both the University and the Champaign-Urbana area are continuing to pressure public officials to build a skatepark for the city of Urbana. Ten skaters, both students of the University and Urbana locals, voiced their support for the proposition at Urbana’s city council meeting on Nov. 27. Those who spoke discussed the bustling skating.
“We hit you guys with about 100-plus emails,” Andrew Valentine told Urbana aldermen this week. “A hundred sixteen, to be exact,” replied Mayor Diane Marlin, who scored points with the