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Newspaper clipping about the cornerstone for The Samuel T. Busey Memorial Library being laid on July 23, 1917.

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Newspaper clipping about the opening of the Samuel T. Busey Memorial Library

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Gus Dixon’s Policy House on the 600 block of Poplar St.

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"Don Skaggs looks at the new display commemorating the first time a tornado was tracked by radar" The News-Gazette, August 30, 2001

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Kuhn's first store, The Emporium, located at 33 Main St., Champaign

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Mayor James Flynn’s 1939 re-election poster. He won the election on April 18, 1939.

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Photo of patrolman Charles Cole, of the Champaign Police force, patrolling his beat of North Market Street aka Gambler’s Row.

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Photograph of Good Shoes by Sholem's at 8 E. Main St in Champaign

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After the Sidney Spring Festival, Block continued to display the photographs and speak to local community groups.
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