Longtime friends remember close-knit Urbana neighborhood
URBANA – They were labeled as from the wrong side of the tracks when they were growing up.
For a fact, they lived north and east of railroad tracks that separated their neighborhood from most of the rest of Urbana. Their six-block neighborhood faced East University Avenue between the National Guard Armory and Woodland, or Sanitary, Park.
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