PAXTON, Ill. (WCIA) -- The skyline in one Central Illinois city got an upgrade on Wednesday.

A years long project to create a replica of Paxton's 138-year-old water tower is finally done -- and people got emotional. Lots of people came out on Wednesday to see a replica of the old water tank raised onto the 80-foot-tower downtown.

The building process has taken a couple of years, but the idea began half a century ago.

"It's the crown of the town," Stan Foster, owner of Stan's Stair Shop, said.

Weighing in at a whopping 22,000 pounds, the "Crown of the Town" is on display for all to see. The Paxton Foundation, a local historic group that was founded in the 1980s, had a goal to put a water tank back on the tower downtown just like the one that was there from 1887 to 1948.

The foundation'

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