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These horse-drawn cars would travel back and forth between the Champaign County Courthouse in Urbana and the Doane House in Champaign every 70 minutes.

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Receipts for bets placed at Turf Club

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Turf Club door at 115½ N. Market St.

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Photo of Turf Club Door at 113 1/2 N. Market Street

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Turf Club, aka Klemick’s, at 113 ½ & 115½ N. Market St., Champaign

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The Doane House was a hotel, restaurant, and meeting place as well as the ICRR depot in Champaign. This was the final stop for the Urbana Railroad Company cars before they returned to the Champaign County Courthouse in Urbana.

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The Doane house was Champaign's major depot for the Illinois Central Railroad and an Inn from 1856 to 1898.

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Staged photo of professional gambling in Champaign
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