Second time around the block for Orchard Downs

URBANA – Diane Marlin fell in love with Orchard Downs in 1971 when she came to the University of Illinois as an undergraduate.

It was a place for walking and biking along tree-lined paths and past playgrounds, gardens and hills. (Yes, hills. Orchard Downs is home to one of the few sledding hills in Champaign-Urbana.)

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