Draft for Champaign downtown plan on agenda

CHAMPAIGN – An update of Champaign's downtown plan calls for the continued remaking of the area.

Specifically, the plan calls for gradually replacing city parking lots with new buildings, construction of parking decks to meet demand, attracting more office, retail and residential uses to downtown and making intersections more pedestrian friendly.

Also on this date

• Rantoul board will consider regulations
• Parkland students making a grand entrance
• 'There's something bigger in store for me'
• Make-A-Wish foundation celebrate 20 years of work in Illinois
• Obituaries

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