South Side

heers to 100 years of Champaign's SOUTH SIDE ELEMENTARY, where students and staffers clad in matching blue shirts kicked off the centennial celebration Wednesday by posing for pictures, singing “Happy Birthday” and taking part in the school’s annual walkathon fundraiser.

And there’s plenty more in store inside Champaign County’s sixth-oldest active school building, younger only than Unit 4’s Columbia (est. 1905) and Edison (1914), Rantoul St. Malachy (1914), Urbana High (1914) and Uni High (1919):

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