'Death of a blue-collar neighborhood'
By Mike Monson
Sunday March 11, 2007
Vanda Bidwell
Frances McArty, 89, sits in her home at 1706 Glenn Park Drive in Champaign.
CHAMPAIGN – Frances McArty says that sometimes she feels like she's "a ghost in a cemetery."
McArty, 89, has pictures of her earlier life, with her late husband, Charles, displayed throughout her house. She easily recalls past friends and neighbors, when nearby Mattis Avenue was just a country road, and the years she spent working at the Robeson's and Goldblatt's department stores.
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