PROPHETSTOWN, Ill. – Take a walk with Bret Bielema, down the main street of his hometown and into his past.
Bielema, the first-year University of Wisconsin football coach, pulls his red Lincoln Navigator Ultimate, into one of the many open angle parking spots on a Tuesday morning on the town’s main drag. He’s been gone for 18 years, but not much has changed in the brick storefronts that line the downtown of the farming community, with a population of 2,023, 30 miles northeast of the Quad Cities.
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