Duncan Road, Champaign, IL - HD Southbound

Duncan Road is a street that runs from North to South Champaign. The northernmost end starts at Bonnie Blair Dr. in North Champaign next to Parkland College and ends at County Rd. 250 N. just west of Pesotum, IL. South of W. Old Church Rd. mostly consists of corn fields where it leaves the Southwest side of Champaign. While not one of the older streets of Champaign, there are quite a few dated houses along Duncan mostly built in the 1980's, although some neighborhoods can date as far back as the 1960's. This is the side of Champaign that is seeing the most development as the city continues to expand west and south. The video starts off in the backlot of the Parkhill Technology Center rolling right past the Timberline Neighborhood. South of the stop sign, Duncan Road then passes through the Powell and Westlake neighborhood to the right and the Parkland Ridge Neighborhood to the left (0:56). Just over the bridge, is a small industrial park and the Prairie Gardens Home Decor store (2:00). South of the traffic light at Springfield Avenue Duncan Road enters one of the older neighborhoods along this street which is the Kenwood/Centennial West neighborhoods on the left and the Holiday Park neighborhood to the right (3:17). Both neighborhoods were built around the 1960's postwar as inexpensive housing for returning veterans. After passing the traffic light at Kirby Avenue there's a small commercial business area to the left (6:48). This is also where the Champaign County Market strip mall is at. To the right is the neighborhood of Maynard Lake built between the 1960's and 1970's to be an isolated neighborhood from the rest of the city. As expansion grew more and more, this neighborhood eventually became attached to the main part of the city. At (7:25) on the left, is the neighborhood of Carleton consisting of smaller homes and built just after the Maynard Lake subdivision was constructed. At (7:48) is the neighborhood of Lincolnshire Fields that consists of smaller Maynard Lake homes and not as expensive. This is also the oldest of the country club neighborhoods dating back to the early 1960's. South of the traffic light at Windsor Road (8:37) consists of the Cherry Hills neighborhood to the left and the Robeson West neighborhood to the right. The Cherry Hills neighborhood was constructed during the 1980's and the Robeson West neighborhood in the 2010's. The Robeson West neighborhood also consists of a small retail area that can be seen on the right. At (10:32) the last neighborhood before leaving mainland Champaign, Rolling Acres, can be seen on the left. This neighborhood consists of mostly medium-sized ranch homes and was built as a rural subdivision of Champaign. A popular Champaign attraction, the Curtis Orchard and Pumpkin Patch can be seen on the left at (10:57). The rest of the video travels through the rural cornfields of Duncan Road after leaving the City of Champaign.