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Is truth really stranger than fiction? In Champaign County, absolutely.
In honor of April Fools Day, try to pick out the fake news:
1. Before there was a Champaign and Urbana, there was Lancaster, Ill., in Champaign County. True or false?
According to Champaign County's first historian, Judge J.O. Cunningham, an early settler named Noah Bixler filed a plat in Vermilion County (before Champaign County had been formed) for the town of Lancaster, which would have been adjacent to the Big Grove area northeast of Urbana.