Timeline: 1983
Champaign Police Department moved from City Hall to the corner of First Street and University Avenue at the site of the old Beasley Hotel.
Charles Lakes became the first African American in gymnastics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and became one of the first African American gymnasts to compete in the Olympics.
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