'Dealing room' proposed for M2

CHAMPAIGN – It started with a conversation at Boltini.

Champaign developer Jon "Cody" Sokolski was talking with Joost Pennings, a University of Illinois associate professor of agricultural and consumer economics, about the possibilities in downtown Champaign.

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