An edition of Remembering Champaign County
(2010)
Remembering Champaign County
by Dannel Angus McCollum
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Table of Contents
Arrival of the European Americans
The pioneers
The first permanent settlers : Henry Sadorus and family
The Sadorus legacy
A long-lost mill site
Entrepreneur extraordinaire : Benjamin Franklin Harris
Early days in Champaign County
A new county
Locating the county seat
Early roads
Early towns
Living fences
The first hanging
Postscript
Connections with Old Abe
Kelley's Tavern
A murder trial
The 1858 Senate race
The last of Abe in Champaign County
Railroad stories
The Illinois Central
The human cost
Urbana and the depot
The great colonizer
Dillsburg on the little railroad that barely could
A train wreck
The industrial university
A personal reflection Higher education comes to the prairie
Rumors
The early academic buildings
Some memorable citizens
A funny man
Paul Lauterborn
Seichi "Bud" Konzo
We call it progress
Brief memories of Two Parks : Crystal Lake and Hessel
The Champaign downtown fountain
Commercial air service comes to Champaign County
The two should be one : merger issues
The end of apartheid in C-U
The mayor, the megalith and the activist
The megalith : a postscript
Evolution of a downtown
The Coke plant
The human side of place
Shakerag : timber rats and prairie dogs
The great shootout
The Busey house robbery
The Harris heist
333 US 203 : a law case
Elm trees and beetles
Death of a newspaper
March madness : the final four.
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