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Families Prepare for 130th Homecoming

Updated: January 7, 2009
The wait is nearly over for families in Central Illinois. Hundreds of anxious friends and family will greet 250 national guardsmen out of Urbana just home from Iraq on Thursday. Some 2000 yellow ribbons line the streets where folks will watch the homecom

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