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UI made to pay $9,750 an acre for land

By Mary Schenk
Saturday November 18, 2006

URBANA – A Champaign County jury has ordered that the University of Illinois pay a Champaign woman $9,750 an acre for farmland she owns that the UI wants.

The amount is about half of what Renee Lo, 67, had hoped that the jury would award her for 132 acres she owns south of Urbana that lies in the heart of the area that the UI has earmarked for its expansion of the South Farms.

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