Two decades later, Homer teachers' strike still sore subject

Twenty years ago, the town of Homer in southeastern Champaign County suffered a devastating blow, a severe disruption for every man, woman and child living within the confines of the village and surrounding school district. Some say the town hasn't fully recovered to this day.

It wasn't a tornado, a flood or a raging fire.

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