Illinois Residents Want Seized Land Back

Todd Spivak/Illinois Times
Illinois Times | May 9, 2005
City of Springfield officials have revived a controversial project to create a lake, which pushed dozens of families from their land. Environmentalists want the land to be used as a preserve; former landowners want their property returned.

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