Urbana council OKs deal with developer to demolish house

URBANA – Who says you can't fight city hall?

When the city's historic preservation commission and then the city council voted last summer to deny developer Howard Wakeland the right to tear down an old rooming house he owned in a historic district on West Main Street, he took the dispute to court.

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