A technical note (for presentation only):

The two sets of slides projected to the north consist of assorted images from around Champaign County that are of general relevance to the story....

The digital images and videos projected on the southern portion of the west wall chronicle the Fighting Illini's "March to the Arch" and are juxtaposed with images of an older and more consequential march to the arch....

The two sets of slides projected in the southeast corner are based on a tour of one square mile of the Champaign County grid. Photos were taken every 400 feet in each of the four cardinal directions....

The four sets of slides projected to the east and west are perhaps the most significant. The locations of the photographs were determined by overlaying an 1833 map of Champaign County on a current highway map. Photographs were taken - one facing east, one facing west - at the precise locations where six historic roads would have intersected current roads. There are 167 such intersections in the county. With one exception, the historic roads no longer exist. These intersections serve as points of continuity between the past and the present. The space, in these precise locations, still essentially functions as a passageway - albeit to different ends and by different means....

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