University of Illinois is also the "birthplace" of HAL from 2001.

I graduated from Champaign Centennial, FWIW.

Dan

>Cruising the news sites, trying to get back to sleep, I came across this. It's the lead story on the Chicago Tribune site at the moment. (Must have been a slow news day, for which we should probably be thankful). I will not lead the conversation off with my own opinion, other than to say it is mixed.
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>By way of local background, North Lawndale is part of the ghetto on the west side of Chicago, said to be the world's largest black ghetto. Crime stats always through the roof. Champaign is downstate, "downstate" being a general term for the vast majority of Illinois that lies below I-80. Champaign is best known for the University of Illinois, a world class university. (For computer science, among other things; Marc Andreesen worked there on Mosaic, an early web browser, before founding Netscape). To get to Champaign from Chicago you head south and drive through cornfields for the better part of three hours.
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>So there's a thumbnail background. What are your thoughts about the news story?
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>http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/chi-21-lawndale-jerseymar21,0,6599783.story