Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1949 [PAGE 7]

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Page 3 Urbana-Champaign is composed of two municipalities LOCATION which lie~oh opposite sides of a street passing through the campus and form one community. The University's Administration building and the oldest part of the campus are on the Urbana side, and this city is the University's official mail address, though a large part of the campus also is on the Champaign side. The community is 128 miles south of Chicago, 96 miles east of Springfield, 180 miles northeast of St. Louis, 125 miles west of Indianapolis. It is served by the Illinois Central, New York Central (Peoria and Eastern), Illinois Terminal, and Wabash railroads. U. S. highways 45 and 150 and state highway 10 pass through the community at the campus• University of Illinois Airport IS SIX miles southwest of the Urb~aria-Champaign campus and is reached over U. S. highway 45. Robert Allerton Park is 5 miles southwest of M cnticello and 26 miles southwest of Urbana-Champaign. Monticello is on the Wabash and Illinois Terminal railroads, and Illinois highway 47. Agricultural fields and farms include 1,298 acres adjoining the Urbana-Champaign campus in Champaign county and others in Adams, Cook, Crawford, Cumberland, DeKalb, DuPage, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Jasper, Johnson, Lake, Lee, Logan, Maccupin, McLean, Me aeer, Ogle, Piatt, Pope, Putnam,Madiso: Randolph, Richland, Saline, St. Clair, Vermilion, White, Will, and Woodford counties. Chicago Professional Campus is a part of that city's West Side Medical Center. General offices and mail address of the University is 1853 W. Polk St., Chicago 12. Presbyterian hospital, affiliated with the University, is at 1753 W. Congress St. The campus can be reached via Elevated trains of the Douglas Park Line to the Polk street station, and by street cars. Chicago Undergraduate Division, on Navy Pier at Grand Ave. and Lake Michigan can be reached by Wabash ave.-Stony Island, and Grand Ave. street cars direct to the door. Camp Rabideau, used by the University for summer training of civil engineering students in surveying, is in the 1,000,000-acre Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota, 4 miles from Blackduck, 25 miles from Bemidji, approximately 700 miles from Chicago and 800 miles from Urbana-Champaign. Blackduck is on the Northern Pacific RR. On the last pages of this folder are maps of the Urbana-Cham- „ p g paign campus, of the location of the University of Illinois —-£ Airport, and of the Chicago Professional Campus. Inside the front cover is a map showing distances to Urbana-Champaign from 39 points in Illinois, and inside the back cover a map showing the location in Chicago of the Professional Campus and of the Undergraduate Division.