Sunday, November 23, 2008 East Central Illinois

Longtime friends remember close-knit Urbana neighborhood

By Lynda Zimmer
Sunday, August 3, 2008 9:28 AM CDT

URBANA – They were labeled as from the wrong side of the tracks when they were growing up.

For a fact, they lived north and east of railroad tracks that separated their neighborhood from most of the rest of Urbana. Their six-block neighborhood faced East University Avenue between the National Guard Armory and Woodland, or Sanitary, Park.

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