Mendota to purchase vacant lots on Main Street for $26,000

Buildings were leveled after severe damage from August 2022 fire

By Charles Van Horn

An excavator demolishes the Genuine "Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco mural located in the looked 800 block of Main Street on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022 in Mendota. On Aug. 22, 2022 nineteen fire departments from all over the Illinois Valley battled a apartment fire that destroyed the entire block. — An excavator demolishes a building in the 800 block of Main Street on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, in Mendota. The city of Mendota will buy two of the properties that burned on Main Street last year. (Scott Anderson)

August 23, 2023 at 1:30 am CDT

The city of Mendota will buy two of the properties that burned last August on Main Street.

The Mendota City Council voted in favor of paying $26,000 for 812 and 818 Main St.

The lots are vacant after a seven-alarm fire in the city last year that totaled the buildings and injured two firefighters.

In other City Council action, Mendota awarded the 2023 Motor Fuel Tax Street Program bid for road repair to Universal Asphalt & Excavating of La Salle for $213,706.