Urbana's next superintendent striving for academic home run

URBANA – When Preston L. Williams Jr. was a college junior, he had to make one of the most difficult decisions of his life: stay in school or be drafted by the Chicago White Sox, the baseball team he'd been a fan of since childhood.

The prospect of joining the team was tempting, but he turned it down.

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