Beginning at 7 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 5, N MacArthur Highway will be closed to all traffic between W 4th Street and W Moss Avenue. The closure is necessary for the MacArthur Highway – Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to Moss Avenue Reconstruction Project and is expected to last until mid-December, weather permitting.
In Urbana on the University of Illinois campus sits a historical marker that reads: “In 1953, John R. Laughnan discovered that kernels of mutant corn were ‘unusually sweet.’ Within eight years, Laughnan had developed the ‘Illini Supersweet’ hybrid that revolutionized the sweet corn industry. Supersweet, now a dominant variety internationally, is higher in protein and lower in calories than conventional sweet corn.”