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Historically Speaking | The day the Michigan flag flew at Champaign City Hall

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"When asked by the university athletic department what size of flag they should prepare, I said 'a damn big one,'" former Champaign Mayor Dannel McCollum writes of his 1989 bet with the mayor of Ann Arbor before the Final Four.

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Historically Speaking | The day the Michigan flag flew at Champaign City Hall

"When asked by the university athletic department what size of flag they should prepare, I said 'a damn big one,'" former Champaign Mayor Dannel McCollum writes of his 1989 bet with the mayor of Ann Arbor before the Final Four.

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The News-Gazette broke the news in on Tuesday, February 17, 2026.
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