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Photo by: John Dixon/The News-Gazette Gameday Spirit , at the corner of Sixth and Green streets in Champaign, will be demolished in June to make way for a 14-story tower, Bankier Apartments' tallest apartment building yet. Bankier has been planning the project since buying the lot 4 years ago . Other Related Content CHAMPAIGN — After 4 years of planning, Bankier Apartments is about to embark on its tallest apartment building yet — a 14-story building at the southwest corner of Sixth and Green streets. The tower will be constructed on the site now occupied by Gameday Spirit , Hair Benders and Beri Frozen Yogurt & Roll Model. The building will have commercial space on the first floor, parking on the second through fourth floors, a lounge for tenants on the fifth floor and apartments on the sixth through 14th floors, said Miriam Booth, managing broker for Bankier Apartments. "We're going to be starting our demolition on June 1," Booth said. The project is expected...

UConn’s place in the Hartford skyline . Hartford — For nearly a half-century, the University of Connecticut has had no place to call its own in the state’s capital city. Today that changes as Connecticut’s flagship university opens the doors of its new $140- million downtown branch campus on Prospect Street . The arrival of the campus, which comes after five years of false starts and setbacks, is a milestone for the university and the city of Hartford. Hundreds attended the grand opening ceremony downtown Wednesday morning . For UConn, it marks the institution’s return from the suburbs into the heart of the city – where the school first opened its Greater Hartford branch in 1939. It moved to West Hartford in 1970. The university, in the years since, had been able to continue to claim a “presence” downtown. Some of UConn’s graduate business programs are housed in a space it leases in 100 Constitution Plaza, and the university’s basketball and ice hockey teams play games in the XL ...

Photo by: John Dixon/The News-Gazette Though rains have caused some delays, the revamped fields along Stadium Drive between Oak and First Streets are expected to be completed by Aug. 15. The eastern half (top) will be the Marching Illini 's new practice field , and the western half (bottom) will house new campus recreation fields . Taken Thursday July 17 , 2014. Image Tough to think about on these unseasonably breezy July days , but school is just around the corner at the University of Illinois. OK, the start of classes is still more than a month away, but housing officials, construction crews and campus rental agents are busy prepping. Here's a look at some changes you will see on campus this fall. Campus Recreation / Marching Illini fields You may have noticed the giant concrete bunker at First Street at Stadium Drive, which closed off a big chunk of First Street for a while. It's actually an underground detention basin to alleviate flooding in that area, which w...

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Plans for the controversial Lincoln Station apartment complex are now shelved after New Lenox village trustees let a motion for a third extension to the special use permit for the project die on the floor Monday night . New Lenox Development Company , LLC had requested another extension for its preliminary planned unit development for the 208-unit complex on 16 acres near the Metra Station but the motion to approve the request was not seconded at the board’s regular meeting. The village had approved the preliminary plan for the complex in August 2015, after almost a yearlong discussion and dissent from residents. In July of that year about 100 residents had attended a special townhall to discuss the project, the majority of whom opposed it. The board granted the PUD in August after NLDC agreed to cut the size of the complex from 312 to 208 units. NLDC had one year to come back to the board for approval of a final plan, however it received a six-month extension last August because it...