Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - UI Informational Pamplet (1945) [PAGE 3]

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In the Library

$44,900,000 Plant

The University of Illinois plant and equipment are valued at more than $44,900,000. The main campus at Urbana-Champaign includes 403 acres, with 1,296 acres of experimental farms adjoining. Other farms are located in 24 counties of the State. The campus for the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, and associated units is in Chicago, a part of the Illinois Medical Center, considered by authorities one of the great medical areas of the world. On the downstate campus there are 74 major buildings, 50 minor structures, and 26 houses, and on the Chicago campus four buildings. The University is divided into 15 colleges and schools for administrative and instructional purposes. In addition there are various research units of the University, cooperating and affiliated agencies, and state agencies located on the two campuses, all working closely with the University for the benefit of the public. The University's income in 1943-44 was $15,703,273, of which $7,651,681 was from state tax funds. This was less than $1 from each citizen—less than 7 cents per week for an average Illinois family of four. The University also received funds from the federal government for specific work, and from student fees, gifts, endowments, operation of residence halls, Union buildings, and farm properties, and sale of surpluses. The University's Library is the largest of all state university libraries, and fifth a m o n g all American educational institutions. It contains more than 2,296,517 volumes, pamphlets, maps, and pieces of music. In a normal year, students and faculty make more than 1,000,000 calls for books. The greatest immediate expansion in University Physical facilities is the new University of Illinois Air-

Port, four miles southwest of the Urbana-Champaign campus, which will be the center of a great program of

instruction and research touching almost all parts of the institution. The airport covers 762 acres, and has

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