Sets of twins face off for prizes in different categories

URBANA – It is a tradition both honored and inevitable in the annals of daily journalism that if a twins convention should come to town, and it will come to town, the story will begin with a joke, pun or pop culture reference, such as Doublemint gum or a best-forgotten Foreigner song.

And that was the case Sunday, when if you were at the Holiday Inn in Urbana, you were seeing double – times two! – or more!

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• Street designation proposed for activist Johnson
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• Obituaries

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