Many don't feel affected by financial crisis

CHAMPAIGN – Despite the pleas of bankers, economists and officeholders, some folks in Champaign-Urbana say they don't feel they've been greatly affected by the banking crisis of the last few weeks and they're in no rush for a federal bailout package.

"We have money in the stock market, and that's gone down, but no, I'm not particularly worried about our situation," said Nancy Egner, who described herself as a homemaker from Savoy. "I worry about other people – people who work in the banks that have failed."

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