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Family members of a Lemont Township native who’d hoped to celebrate his college graduation this weekend are instead mourning his death in a motorcycle crash.
30-year-old Paul Davidson was about to graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in architecture.
In fact, he was celebrating with his father Paul Jr. and other family members on Friday night.
An Illinois man was killed in a one-vehicle accident in Rock County early Sunday.
Christopher Huggins, 20, of Rockford, Ill., was a passenger in a car driven by Devon Hurd, 19, of Machesny Park, Ill., when the vehicle slid on a gravel road in the Town of Avon around 2:25 a.m. Sunday, according to the Rock County Sheriff's Department. The car slid off the road and struck a grove of trees on the passenger side, heavily damaging the vehicle.
Huggins died at the scene. Hurd was taken to Mercy Hospital in Janesville, where he was treated for minor injuries.