Apartments, events hall projects could breathe new life into former MacMurray campus
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The Jacksonville Plan Commission is being asked to approve a zone change that would allow Annie Merner Chapel on the campus of the shuttered MacMurray College to be used as a special events hall.Journal-Courier
Part of the shuttered MacMurray College could see new life through separate projects to bring an events facility and multi-family housing to the former campus.
The college closed in May. Property at the 174-year-old institution was auctioned Nov. 12 after being divided into 18 tracts. The auction brought in about $1.35 million.
Jacksonville businessman Mike Hayes, owner of Hayes Properties, was the top bidder for a tract that included one of MacMurray’s best-known buildings, Annie Merner Chapel, and the neighboring McClelland Dining Hall.