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Caption: Course Catalog - 1897-1898
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LOCATION The University of Illinois is situated in Champaign County, in the eastern central part of the state between the cities of Champaign and Urbana, within the corporate limits of the latter. It is one hundred and twenty-eight miles south of Chicago, at the junction of the Illinois Central, the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, and the Wabash railroads. The country around is a rich and prosperous agricultural region. The cities of Urbana and Champaign have a combined population of about 15,000. HISTORY In 1862 the national government donated to each state in the Union public land scrip in quantity equal to 30,000 acres for each senator and representative in congress, "for the endowment, support and maintenance of at least one college, whose leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts * * * * in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions of life." On account of this grant the state pays the University, semi-annually, interest at the rate of five per cent, on about $460,000, and the University owns about 11,000 acres of unimproved land worth approximately $140,000. To secure the location of the University several counties entered into competition by proposing to donate to its use specified sums of money, or their equivalent. Cham(21)
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