Empty storefronts and shuttered restaurants line the main drag along Locust Street in Delavan, a sleepy enclave just south of Peoria.
But on the outskirts of town, business is booming — or, rather, blooming. Inside a nondescript warehouse behind a razor wire fence sit thousands of marijuana plants being grown for medical use.
And recently, as the state eyes making recreational use of marijuana legal, officials in this city of 1,600 are hoping full legalization will help revive the town, about 170 miles southwest of Chicago, that was built 182 years ago with funding from a leader of the anti-alcohol movement.
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