Can Champaign's Community Day Care rise again?
By Julie Wurth
Sunday February 10, 2008
Robert K. O'Daniell
The Urban League's Vernessa Gipson interacts with the students during snack time at Community Day Care in Champaign.
More than 50 years ago, in an old house on Bradley Avenue, a group of women from the Junior Service League of Champaign-Urbana created a child care center for low-income working families.
The group answered phones, changed diapers, raised money and built a new building before turning the center over to a community board in 1969.
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