Cunningham Avenue beautification study's ideas panned
URBANA – The chairman of the city's plan commission is blasting a Cunningham Avenue beautification study as containing "ridiculous," impractical recommendations, including calling for a giant sculpture of prairie grass on Cunningham that would rise several stories over and above Interstate 74.
And the state has told the city some of the ideas in the report are unacceptable or dangerous.
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