Area history, Dec. 13, 2020
Today is Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. Here are local news reports from 100, 50 and 15 years ago: In 1920, the local Salvation Army corps was planning to send out 200 Christmas baskets at an average cost of $4 each ($53 in todayâs dollars). The four Christmas kettles distributed about Champaign-Urbana in the previous week had raised about $200 ($2,700 today) thus far. In 1970, Champaign City Council member Robert Pope joined incumbent Virgil Wikoff and Melvin Mitchell as candidates for mayor of Champaign. In 2005, the Civil War-era Solon House, one of the few remaining Italianate structures in ...
Source: news-gazette.com