THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE STORY BY JENNIFER BAILEY
ABOVE: The image of Evel Knievel is back on a mural in Downtown Danville.
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DANVILLE — Evel Knievel is riding again in downtown Danville.
Fifteen years after Walldogs artists converged on the city painting historic murals and more than 20 years since the popular Chuckles gummy candy was produced locally, muralist Mike Meyer of Chester, Iowa, returned to Danville on Wednesday to return Evel and his motorcycle.
Meyer was in Danville in June to repaint the Chuckles mural that had become faded on a building wall on Walnut Street near Fatman’s Warehouse.
As part of Danville’s history with Chuckles, it was in 1974 when the candy teamed up with motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. He was in a television commercial jumping over a pile of Chuckles candy boxes on his motorcycle.
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