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THE PANTAGRAPH ocus Fleetwood Mac Hand in luick irilh a icW album Page D7 SECTION FRIDAY May 2, 2003 Old House Society of McLean County 'ft1 Bill Flick S3 ex 1 V. 5 -4 t. The PantagraphDAVID PROEBER The historic boyhood home of Adlai Stevenson II has been restored and features a number of period-style furnishings. Tour TIME Group delivers more than old houses 3 i ill J5 Urn Iraq'ed my brain to write this review COLUMN DIARY 2t03, a check of big headlines, small wonders'and other worldly events: April 2003 1. Voters say bold "Yes!" to huge downtown Normal hotel project, plus endorse large school-tax increases everywhere else in area, too.

April Fools! 2. Motown icon Edwin Starr whose anti-Vietnam song, "War" reverberated in the late '60s, apparently has enough of Iraq, too. He was only 61. 3. Sammy Sosa successfully loses 500th ball of his professional career.

4. War in Iraq produces first eventual made-for-TV movie: "Saving Private Jessica." 5. Blagojeviches add another syllable an 8-pound, 5-ounce girl. 6. Daylight Saving Time begins.

Illi-noisans lose hour of sleep, a deficit never truly felt until the next afternoon at the office. 7. Dow Jones dips below 8,000 again. Your 401 is still not o(k), 8. In difficult fashion, Syracuse nonetheless wins it all in Big Easy 9.

Having overcome raging bulls, swords and murderous gladiators, actor Russell Crowe now even decides to get married. 10. The voters having vented, Normal opts not to place a hotel on its own pardon us Vent(n)er Ave. 11. With torrential rains, Mother Nature yes, a female holds up first day of Masters golf tournament at men's-only Augusta National course.

12. Gvnr Rd Blgjvch propses sgnf-cant bdgt cuts. 13. First Dorothy and Toto left Kansas. Now basketball coach Roy Williams does, too.

14. SARS latest item to be "Made In China." 15. National tax day. So we can begin to pay for all that Iraqi activity 16. Having successfully braved gangs, drunks, thugs and assorted lawbreakers to make the city's streets safer, several Bloomington police are reprimanded for exchanging naughty e-mail pictures.

17. Illinois' Fitzgerald peters out. 18. Robert Atkins, creator of famed Atkins Diet, unfortunately finds another way to cut back on calories. He was 72.

18. Comedian Rodney Dangerfield has brain surgery to ready him for forthcoming heart surgery. Hey, even his own body gives him no respect! 19. During Easter week, near junction of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and biblical birthplace of Abraham, leaders meet to see if Iraq can rise from the dead. 20.

Kansas turns around and helps it-Self to Illinois' coach. 21. Alan Greenspan has surgery on his swollen prostate, up significantly since the first quarter but still not quite as robust as during his last inflation in the fourth quarter of 1996. 22. TV screen filled with scenes of frantic shoppers rummaging stores in near riot.

And that's just during the opening weekend of Peoria's new mall. 23. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas go back into production studio. Have baby girl. 24.

Monica Lewinsky, still apparently tired of all the limelight, lands yet another tiring job, this time as host of a TV reality show. 25. Heinz introduces ketchup in a bright sea blue. Wait a minute has anyone seen the Smurfs lately? 26. Iraq's former deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz better known as that guy who looks like Larry Tate on "Bewitched" taken into U.S.

custody. 27. Sadly, Charlton Heston shuffles off world stage as NRA president. Even Moses gets Alzheimer's. 28.

Dial Corp. doles out $10 million after horrendous sexual harassment claims. Aren't you glad you use Dial? Don't you wish everyone did? 28. Saddam celebrates 66th birthday. On his gift list: A bulletproof vest, plastic surgery, a map of Syria, enrollment in the nearest witness-protection program.

29. Hillary Clinton says she hopes to sell at least a million copies of her new book. So it'll take more than just a village. 30. Weber grilled.

Illini have new coach. 30. War successfully ends before May TV sweeps. Bill Flick is at flickpantaQraph.com. The addition on Mark and Sara Schilawski's home at 1325 E.

Washington was blended into the architecture of the existing home. By Steve Arney PANTAGRAPH STAFF When Old House Society members placed two sites in Lexington on their annual house tour last year, they did so with a degree of anxiety The group is the Old House Society of McLean County, but group leaders wondered how people would react to the trip outside Bloomington-Normal. None complained. Half of the 700 or so people who go on the annual tour come from outside Bloomington-Normal. Twin City residents didn't gripe, and out-of-towners appreciated recognition of sites beyond the Twin Cities, recalled Paula Wager.

Wager was chairwoman of the house tour last year and is again this year. This year's tour again goes out of town, this time to the south of the Twin Cities. It takes people to a Native American site, two farm houses and a country cemetery. Wager became interested in the Old House Society during a house tour five years ago. She joined two years later.

She lives in Normal in the Clinton Place neighborhood. She graduated from Illinois Wes-leyan University in 1989 with a degree in history. On a preview of the upcoming tour, she offered perspectives of the tour site along with Mark Edwards. SEE TOUR PAGE D3 1 I 1 flJ i i4 i 1 r. A re-creation of an early prairie houses, known as a waddle, will be part of the Old House Society's house tour.

A number of historic prairie structures at Funk's Grove are being rebuilt since a fire destroyed and damaged buildings last year. The historic home at 502 E. Walnut In Blooming-ton Is under renovation as luxury apartments. ,11 til in i. 1 24th annual tour 110 a.m.

to 4 p.m. June 7 $10 per person (free for children 13 and younger) I Advance ticket sales: Garlic Press, Normal; Casey's Garden Shop and Old House Society Architectural Warehouse, Bloomington I Day of event: Parking lot on Douglas Street at U.S. 51 northbound (East Street), downtown Bloomington Self-guided tour comes with maps. Tour includes interior and exterior, with greeters and hosts to answer questions at each location. I On the Net: www.oldhousesociety.org 1 -iL-i 4 i IT Jf '4 f.

i it The historic Funk's home east of Funk's Grove is one of the featured homes on the Old House Society home tour..