Second time around the block for Orchard Downs
By Christine Des Garennes
Sunday April 15, 2007
Heather Coit
A sign points the way to Orchard Downs' community center. Redevelopment plans are being discussed for the University of Illinois housing area.
URBANA – Diane Marlin fell in love with Orchard Downs in 1971 when she came to the University of Illinois as an undergraduate.
It was a place for walking and biking along tree-lined paths and past playgrounds, gardens and hills. (Yes, hills. Orchard Downs is home to one of the few sledding hills in Champaign-Urbana.)
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