Township assessor facing first challenge in a long time

CHAMPAIGN – For as long as anyone remembers, there has never been a Democratic assessor in City of Champaign Township. Brian Christie hopes to keep it that way.

But for the first time since his initial campaign for township assessor in 1989 (in which he beat future county Democratic Party chairwoman Gerrie Parr by about 500 votes), Christie has an opponent in Tuesday's election: Democrat Wayne Williams, a 23-year-old University of Illinois accountancy graduate.

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