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Yes, I went to the U. of I. but for grad school, and considerably earlier than you did. I was there from mid-1979 through mid-1983. My wife and I happened to be back there last July as we were on a driving trip east and made a point of passing through Champaign. The city is pretty much unrecognizable from what it looked like 40 years ago. The whole downtown is different, the whole north-of-I-74/Marketplace Mall area is different, much of the campustown area was unrecognizable.
We lived on the west side of town on Union Street just east of Mattis Avenue. You could thrown a stone from our front door into the Country Fair Shopping Center parking lot. There was nothing familiar about that shopping center today except its name. There was a Target store on the west side of Mattis north of the intersection with Union but south of University (if I'm remembering correctly) that we used to go to all the time. Gone. I could repeat this story several dozen times.
One of our favorite restaurants was The Greater Downtown Champaign Food and Beverage Company, usually referred to by locals as "Food and Beverage" as in "want to go to Food and Beverage for dinner tonight?" No sign of it. Of course, 40 years is a long time, and restaurants don't last forever. Any possibility it was there when you were?
A nice store in downtown Champaign we used to go to was Robeson's Department Store. It was a wonderful, old-fashioned (although we didn't think of it that way at the time), locally-owned department store. We didn't think it would still be there as so many of these small-town department stores have disappeared in recent decades. I found a website about it. It closed in 1989, not long after we left.
I know we're hijacking a thread here, so I'll stop after one more comment. When we lived there in the early '80s, the Round Barn Restaurant in the Round Barn Shopping Center at the corner of Mattis and Springfield was a go-to restaurant for Sunday morning, after-church breakfast and any other occasion. We wondered if there was any vestige of it left after all these years. We found that the building still exists, but it's off to the side, abandoned, and falling apart. We thought it was a good metaphor for our visit experience...everything we remember was either gone or falling apart. 40 years does that to things.
Last edited by jaunty75; Sep 25, 2019 at 05:01 PM.
