Residents love constantly evolving Champaign subdivision
By Mike Monson
Sunday July 6, 2008
John Dixon
Bob and Inez Goddard have lived in the Garden Hills home on Paula Drive since they built their house there 54 years ago.
CHAMPAIGN – Garden Hills has a way of getting noticed.
The northwest neighborhood of roughly 1,000 homes – a proud, diverse and working-class neighborhood – has its share of problems. But it's also filled with many longtime residents who say they wouldn't live anyplace else.
This summer, Garden Hills is the focus of an intense city effort to provide activities and guidance to local youths, who alarmed city officials last spring by gathering in large numbers on many nights and sometimes clashing with police.
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