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Orpheum's board seeks proposals for buildling new museum

January 8, 2009

CHAMPAIGN – The people who run the Orpheum Children's Science Museum think it might be better off in different quarters than the historic 95-year-old Orpheum Theatre building in downtown Champaign.

So they've put out a request for proposals asking local developers if they would be interested in building a new, larger children's museum, and for their ideas about a potential reuse of the theater building. Full story »

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