CATLIN, Ill. (WCIA) — In about a week, a piece of history will be gone in one Central Illinois community.
For more than 90 years, a grain elevator has looked over the village of Catlin. But about three years ago, a Japanese grain bin corporation called Zen Noh bought the property and is now making some changes. It’s being torn down, and the village is losing a landmark.
Maryann Thomas has lived in Catlin more than 45 years.
“Yeah, it was kind of kind of sad just to see, you know, the building — the elevator and everything over there. And it’s going to be different again with that all flattened,” Thomas said.
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Village official David Biggerstaff said Zen Noh is paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring it down.
“Their cost was $400,000. Just to tear it down.”
With the village budget being $1.2 million a year, this would’ve taken up a third of it, and the …