Local coverage
Project conversations across Champaign County.
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Urbana
Much of Urbana's historic core went up in the construction boom that followed the October 9, 1871 fire, which means a large share of the city's oldest rooflines -- pitch, framing, and materials -- date to a fairly concentrated late-1800s and early-1900s building period.
Local planning notes →Savoy
Savoy didn't incorporate until 1956, and its fastest growth came between 2000 and 2024, when it more than doubled in size to become Champaign County's fastest-growing municipality.
Local planning notes →Mahomet
Mahomet's original 1832 settlers were drawn to the Sangamon River in part for its timber, and the village that grew up along the riverbank has kept more tree cover near its historic core than open-prairie towns typically do.
Local planning notes →Rantoul
Chanute Field's buildings went up over the 76 years the base operated, from 1917 to 1993, with roofing chosen to serve a working Air Force technical-training facility rather than typical residential expectations.
Local planning notes →St. Joseph
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Local planning notes →Tolono
Tolono incorporated in 1865 around a 19th-century railroad junction, and its early housing -- built for a population largely employed by the rail lines -- established a roofline character shaped more by that junction-town economy than by farmland aesthetics.
Local planning notes →Monticello
The historic homes along Monticello's State Street, part of what's known as Millionaires Row, and the Allerton mansion built 1899-1903 carried more architecturally complex rooflines than a standard county farmhouse of the same era.
Local planning notes →Villa Grove
Villa Grove's original 1887 townsite and the 1902-era Frisco division-point rebuild produced two distinct waves of construction close together in the same small town, each with its own roofline generation.
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