Cunningham Avenue beautification study's ideas panned
By Mike Monson
Saturday November 29, 2008
2nd Globe Corp.
An artist's depiction of a giant sculpture of prairie grass on Cunningham Avenue in Urbana, which would rise over Interstate 74. The Illinois Department of Transportation says the idea is unacceptable and dangerous.
URBANA – The chairman of the city's plan commission is blasting a Cunningham Avenue beautification study as containing "ridiculous," impractical recommendations, including calling for a giant sculpture of prairie grass on Cunningham that would rise several stories over and above Interstate 74.
And the state has told the city some of the ideas in the report are unacceptable or dangerous.
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