John Dixon
Radio Maria co-owners Sharon Owens and David Spears are constructing an addition that will double the downtown Champaign restaurant's size and add the bar area it lacks.
CHAMPAIGN – When David Spears and Sharon Owens opened an offbeat restaurant called Radio Maria in downtown Champaign, they hoped it would leave them some time to continue their other careers as artists.
A decade later, they say, the restaurant itself has become their artwork.
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