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Businesses Move On After Factory Fire

Piles of debris remain at a large-manufacturing complex in northern Illinois.  The old Westclox factory in Peru sustained damage in a New Year’s Eve fire authorities say was caused by arsonists. 

WNIJ's Mike Moen reports, the incident didn't bring down the entire complex, but it's resulted in unexpected changes in the new chapter that was being written at this landmark: