DU QUOIN, Ill. (AP) — A house in the southern Illinois city of Du Quoin is being demolished after the City Council put it up for sale for $100 in December. Any buyer of the house built in the early 1880s would have had to make renovations and live there for seven years as part of a homesteading program. But Du Quoin Mayor Guy Alongi says no viable offers had been made since December. The (Carbondale) Southern Illinoisan reports the house will be torn down in an agreement with the owner of a child care center. The lot was sold for $6,800, which is what the demolition will cost. Alongi says the choice to sell the house under the homesteading program was made by a previous city administration. He called the program is “very cumbersome.”

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