A little bit of big city in small town Hillsboro, IL.

January 2018, almost 5 years ago, my wife Kristen and I bought this abandoned building in Hillsboro, IL. I’m not sure I could have imagined the amount of work it would take to get here, between loans, stress, dirt, dumpsters of debris, lots of hard work, donations of building materials and help from lots of […]

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It’s Alive 2!

It’s Alive 2.  The wolf is back!  While cruising Hillsboro, IL, “cool wolf” finds the magical keys to the city. He has one day to do what he wants inside any door he wants to open..  Produced and filmed by Brian Lee and Matt Sands for Small Town Cool and The Gold Pan records. Music […]

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#Usingupscraps!

This may be a very confusing post if you don’t read it! Ha Ha. -This week I asked a few downtown buddies if they had any plywood scraps to spare, and they did. As I’m using them up, these (see photo) worked out to look like little frames for one of the pop-up shops from […]

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Six months are gone!…

It’s been so crazy this last 6 months working on this building I’ve only snapped a photo or two of progress and other little projects. Here’s a few of them you may have missed… Borrowed the city’s new lift today to put up the lights today. Can’t wait to show you guys all the cool […]

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“FRESH LOOK”- Evi Salon opens in a lovingly restored building downtown Hillsboro.

Last year, around this time, 229 South Main in Hillsboro, IL was nothing shy of the “ugliest building on the block”. And so it was named by many downtowners. A year later Brian and Anna Limbaugh are opening Evi Salon- a fresh, modern, four chair space, full of color, historic detail and energy. Anna will […]

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