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A Glacier Runs Through it:
How Champaign County Got its Shape

Dec 31, 2017
4 min

A Glacier Runs Through it: How Champaign County Got its Shape

Although Champaign County was named after a county in Ohio, its name couldn’t be more fitting. Champaign means “level, open country.”...

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