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Page 9 AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN are the main campus and administrative offices of the University* Fourteen colleges and schools here offer liberal arts and professional courses and advanced work. Here also are institutes; bureaus, experiment stations, and headquarters for extension and other statewide services. Urbana-Champaign is one community (population 78,200 est. 1958 composed of two municipalities on opposite sides of a street passing through the campus. Since the Administration Building is on the Urbana side, that is the University's official mail address. The community is 128 miles south of Chicago, 96 miles east of Springfield, It is served by the Illinois Central Railroad, Wabash Railroad, and Ozark airlines* U. S. highways * 5 and 150 and state highway 10 pass through * the community. CHICAGOPROFESSIONAL CAMPUS is the site of teaching, research, and service units in the health sciences. It is part of the State Medical Center District on the near West Side, largest medical center in the world* (Units, see p. 20-21.) General offices and mail address of the professional units is I853 W. Polk St., Chicago 12. The campus can be reached via elevated trains of the Douglas Park line to Polk Street station. CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION offers freshman and sophomore work in liberal arts, commerce, engineering, and physical education. It is in space leased on Navy Pier, at Grand Ave. and Lake Michigan, reached via the Canal-Wacker and Grand Avenue busses* EXTENSION activities are carried on by the College of Agriculture (page 12) and the Division of University Extension* The Division, established in 1933, operates correspondence courses, at college * level both for credit and without college credit; extramural courses, both college credit, at undergraduate and graduate levels, and non-credit; the world*s largest educational film lending library in its Audio-Visual Aids Service, providing films, film-strips, and tapes from a milliondollar self-supporting library; a Speakers Bureau through which schools, civic organizations, etc. can obtain names of University personnel avail* able as speakers; short courses, conferences, institutes, and workshops conducted on and off the campus in cooperation with other University agencies; operates Allerton House at Robert Allerton Park as a conference center; Firemanship Training and the famous Illinois Fire College, oldest in the nation; the Illinois Police Training Institute; Vocational Testing and Counseling; and Music Extension (page 15). Dean since 1933 is Robert B. Browne* ROBERT ALLERTON PARK is a beautiful country estate given to the University ~ ~~ in 19^6. Gardens, statuary from all over the world, and woodlands are open to the public* Allerton House is a conference center. With the park is a memorial k-M Club camp. The gift from Robert Allerton included 1,5^0 acres of farmland, income from which supports the property. The park is operated by the College of Agriculture; the house by Division of University Extension* Allerton Park is 5 miles southwest of Monticello and 26 miles southwest of Urbana-Champaign* Monticello is on the Wabash railroad and Illinois highway 105. The park is reached by marked roads from either Illinois highway 105 or 1 7 • *