Champaign Co. works to remove racial covenants from property documents – WAND (Decatur)

In the past it took an expensive trip to the courts to have the racist wording removed from a real estate deed. But the Illinois legislature passed a law making it easier for property owners to remove the offensive sections of the deed. Champaign County still has 18 subdivisions with the covenants. Along with about 900 properties.

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