Historic Champaign organ finds new home at Immaculate Conception in Jackson - KBSI FOX23 News Cape Girardeau News

Historic Champaign organ finds new home at Immaculate Conception in Jackson - KBSI FOX23 News Cape Girardeau News

JACKSON, Mo., (KBSI) – Crews this week began carefully removing the 1958 Reuter Opus 1248 organ from University Place Christian Church in Champaign, Illinois, marking the end of an era for the congregation that has worshipped in the building for more than a century. At 54 ranks, the instrument is the largest organ in the city of Champaign. While the congregation remains active, church leaders said the upkeep of the historic structure had become …