HARRISBURG - The city of Harrisburg is looking for a new home for 82 caskets - all of them empty.
The coffins, a major donation to the city by the Batesville Casket Company of Indiana, have been stored for some time at the Southeastern Illinois College Foundation building on Commercial Street, the Alan Miller building. Now, the foundation needs the space, Mayor Valerie Rose Mitchell and Public Properties Superintendent Russell Duncan said on Thursday.