150th anniversary preparations for Champaign begin

CHAMPAIGN – It's still 15 months away, but preparations are under way to celebrate the city's 150th anniversary.

A committee of 17 residents, including four former mayors and current Mayor Jerry Schweighart, are working on what will be a 13-month-long celebration of city history – from March 2010 to March 2011.

Also on this date

• Man receives 7 years in prison for drunk driving accident that killed Gibson City woman
• Chimney fire briefly disrupts traffic on University Avenue
• Champaign man convicted of 1988 rape leaves court a free man
• State troopers to be out in force over the holiday
• Danville biofuels plant starting production process today
• Slow state payments prompt changes at Boys and Girls clubs
• School boards will have new faces in April
• Playboy visits UI for input on its new 'mobisode' series
• UI police determine man only had toy gun
• Obituaries

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