Bradley University told the students living at 841 N. Maplewood that they needed to be out of the house by May 20. So on Sunday, May 20, I asked my husband John to meet me there at 2:30 pm. As a Bradley student, John had walked by the house hundreds of times, but had never been in it.
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Growing up on Maplewood, kids were everywhere—33 in an eight house area. The next four houses from our corner were home to the Boeson, Keister, Simpson, and Richey families with three, four, two, and two kids respectively. They were the public school kids, who went to Whittier.
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Though my family didn't move into the house at 841 N. Maplewood until 1964, when I was three and my brother Jim was two, our first connection to the place occurred more than a decade earlier, thanks to my dad attending Bradley University...
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This is not the first time that Bradley has owned the properties they paid an estimated $5-$6 million over the last year.
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When I was three, we moved from the corner of Main and Maplewood down the block to the large, light blue, aluminum-sided house on the corner of Maplewood and Laura, address 841 N. Maplewood. I fell in love with the spectacularly garish, red and white cowboy wallpaper in the back bedroom...
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