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Champaign Honors Heroes

Updated: January 7, 2009
The city of Champaign honored sixteen ordinary people for doing extra-ordinary things. The awards ceremony featured men and women who helped change lives financially and some who saved lives. One man, James Russel, saved a baby boy under his care when a v

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