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When Lomira Perry died on Dec. 29, 1961, she left a valuable gift to the community where her ancestors had settled more than 125 years earlier. The gift was a ....
When Alfred Fortin died at the age of 87 on January 26, 1937, his will instructed the creation of an orphanage with a specified location: six large lots that he ....
As delivery drivers Vernon Coy and Robert Metz turned their trucks into the alley behind Clifton’s Royal Blue Grocery Store shortly after 4 a.m. on Sept. 10, 1954, they could ....
Local plans “just in case” a busload of migrants should happen to arrive without advance notice … a controlled burn at a Champaign park … some new solar gizmos on ....