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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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16 LOCATION. The University is situated in the city of Urbana, adjoining the limits of the city of Champaign, in Champaign county, Illinois. It is 128 miles from Chicago, on the Illinois Central Eailroad. The Indianapolis, Bloomington and Western Eailway passes near the grounds. The county is one of the most beautiful prairie regions in the West. The two contiguous cities, constituting really only one community, have together a population of nearly 9,000, well supplied with churches and schools, and affording boarding facilities for a large body of students. BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. The domain occupied by the University, and shown on the foregoing map, embraces about 623 acres, including stock farm, experimental farm, orchards, gardens, nurseries, forest plantations, arboretum, botanic garden, ornamental grounds, and military parade ground. The old University building now occupied partly by class rooms, library and laboratory, contains some seventy dormitories for students. I t is 125 teet in length, and five stories in height, with a wing of 40 by 80 feet, four stories in height. This building was donated by Champaign county. A cut of it will be found on the last page of cover. New University Building.
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