FIG 1: 1858 Bowman Map of Urbana by Hannah Hedrick  In the early days of Champaign County, when the prairie stretched on and on for miles with few people in between, there wasn’t much formally established in terms of law enforcement.  According to local tradition, the first documented murder in the region, before the county was even a county, was of an unknown horse thief. Having stolen the horse in Indiana, the outlaw fled westward with a band of regulators chasing close behind. The thief...