UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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BUILDINGS

AND GROUNDS.

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and an artillery room; the other contains a printing office and editor's room. The Chemical Building, erected in 1878, at a cost, including furniture, of $40,000, contains five laboratories, and is one of the best and largest in the United States.

PROPERTY AND FUNDS.

Besides its lands, buildings, furniture, library, etc., valued at $400,000, the University owns 16,000 acres of well selected lands in Minnesota and Nebraska. It has also endowment funds invested in State and County bonds amounting to over $450,000.