or
"Why my son was late to his Friday morning art class"
or
"Because traffic downtown isn't bad enough"
The Metropolitan Building, a 130+ year-old building in downtown Champaign (across the street from 02, kitty corner from Jim Gould's, caught fire early this morning, collapsing just after firefighters arrived, damaging several nearby buildings and causing a major PITA for those of us trying to navigate downtown.
The News-Gazette has a neato slide-show and this Picasa website has some more.
The building was being renovated and no injuries seem to have been reported.
