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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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NATUBE OP LOCATION 41 the University was a mistake. It went to two mere hamlets, in a sparsely settled region regarded as little removed, in large part, from a marsh: the flattest, plainest, most monotonous section of Illinois. It was difficult of access, and the "White Elephant"1 in which it was to be housed was ill-adapted to its purpose. At Jacksonville the University might have suffered from the influence of the too rigidly practical and utilitarian ideas of Turner, but there and at Bloomington it would have been built on the strong foundation of an existing institution; at Springfield it would have aroused the more direct interest of the State; and at any of the three its natural environment would have been more attractive than at Urbana. As the opponents of Champaign derisively called the building, which had been planned to cost, with its grounds, about $100,000, and was worth at most $40,000. 1
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