Parking, traffic restrictions for Freedom Celebration

Police are taking steps to prevent repeats of the traffic snarls in and around Parkland College and Dodds Park, where the Freedom Celebration fireworks will be on Saturday night.

Also on this date

• C-U, area communities all preparing their holiday cheers
• Paxton city council takes no vote on union contract
• Water main reported broken at Ameren site
• Fairmount woman hurt in three-vehicle wreck in Urbana
• Hoopeston Area teachers contract achieved in short order
• Current, ex-UI law deans respond to 'Cloutgate' articles
• Carle again earns a Level I trauma center designation
• Owner says Urbana dueling-piano bar staying silent
• AmerenIP announces plans for 138,000-volt power line
• Obituaries

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