UI's demolition clock ticks for old barn, home
By Anne Cook
Friday August 10, 2007
CHAMPAIGN – Don Maxwell's old barn and home still stand near the corner of South First Street and Old Church Road, but the clock's ticking.
"They're tearing down the machine shed and the corn crib," said Maxwell, who lost his farmland in 2003 when he finally struck a deal with the University of Illinois, which used eminent domain powers to get it.
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