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After more than a year of community protest, the Oregon City Council voted
in February 2005 against a proposed Illinois Department of Transportation
(IDOT) road widening project that would have demolished two prominent
corner buildings at the intersection of Ill. Rtes. 2 and 64. The
buildings, which date from 1870 and 1935, are part of a downtown district
surrounding the Ogle County Courthouse Square that had been determined
eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, based on an LPCI-funded
independent study. Oregon is located on the Rock River, 25 miles south of
Rockford.
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