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115 N. Neil Street, Looking Up — ©Lauri Novak

A Quick Wander Around Downtown

4 min readMar 19, 2025

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I took a quick, overnight road trip to Champain, Illinois a couple of weeks ago. The trip's main purpose was to drop a few of my Polar Opposites books off at a local bookshop/cafe/bar.

I made a short list of local architecture I was interested in photographing. In the end, after the drive took longer than expected, I opted to wander around the downtown area to see what I could find.

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Champaign IL 30 E Main Detail — ©Lauri Novak

What I found was a lot of interesting architectural elements. History about the area which I knew nothing about. There are also a bunch of cute and interesting shops of all types.

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Champaign IL 30 E Main Detail — ©Lauri Novak

From gothic details to some art deco, the architecture in the downtown Champaign area covered the gambit. I was happy that I decided to walk around in this area instead of driving to different locations that were on my list.

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Fine art photographer, inspirer and author. Editor at Full Frame. First published book: https://laurinovak.com/polar-opposites-book/

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