More than 85-hundred acres of land in northwest Illinois sold Monday for a little over $55-million dollars.
The late Maurice Wilder owned the land, and the sale drew so much attention it took place at Western Illinois University in Macomb. R-D Schrader coordinated the sale;
Schrader, who runs his auction company out of Indiana, said they had 64 bidders. That dropped to just a few that wanted all of the land up for sale in Fulton and Mercer counties. The final sale went to an undisclosed buyer.
The large tracts of Illinois land brought about $65-hundred dollars an acre.
