Hotel in downtown Champaign considered

CHAMPAIGN – A downtown development group is talking with four hotel groups about the possibility of establishing a 100- to 120-room hotel in downtown Champaign.

Jon "Cody" Sokolski, chief executive officer of One Main Development, said he expects to know by the end of next week whether a hotel will be a part of a downtown building project that he and several other investor-owners are planning for most of the block between Neil and Randolph streets and Church and Hill streets.

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