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Caption: Dedication - Illini Union
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How was the building financed? Since the money for the Union was not to be appropriated by the state legislature, the University obtained $544,000 through a grant from the Public Works Administration and an insurance company loan of $656,000 more, to be amortized by funds from a small fee to be assessed each student. The furnishings and equipment were purchased with contributions from alumni and other friends of the University. In June, 1938, the forerunner of the present Illini Union Board — the "Advisory Committee on the Management and Operation of the Illini Union Building" — was formed. Then, in 1939, actual construction began. Work was also begun on the organization and integration of activities to take place in the new building. The first step was the emergence of a new student organization, the Men's League, out of the old Illinois Union. It corresponded to the Women's League in responsibilities and function. Soon came one of the first signs that the structure now rising in the heart of the campus was really more than a building. It was originally intended that the Advisory Committee confine its activities to the operation of the building itself. It became apparent that this "operation" meant ever-increasing service in a physical, educational, and recreational way. Who, then, was to sponsor the Illini K3 fiiiiiii The Illini Union at its opening in I94J. In I960, a 63 million dollar addition w\
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