Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1955 [PAGE 44]

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rhana-Cham iign imposed of two municipalities hi h lie on Opposite sides of a street p ;ilng through ampus ind form one community. The University's t strfc m i\ oldest part of the campus ar<* o n the tfrbana , and f hi t I iver Lty 8 official mall address, thoagh a la *e > th f ampus also is on the Champaign side. The eomnur Is alios south ' Chlca . 96 miles east of Springfield, 1 miles 1 I a$ > St, Louis, 1 5 miles west of Indianapolis. It is served r I f Illll nt il. New York Central (P^ria and Eastern), I -i >3 ninal. and Wabash railroads. U. S. highways 45 and 150 and state hi£ ass through the community at the campus. University of Illinois Airport is six miles soutl 1-Champaign campus and is reached over U. 3. highway 45. of the

Robert Jlerton Park is 5 miles southwest of Montlcello and 26 es southwest of Urbana-Champaign. Montlcello is o n the Wabash and Illinois Terminal railroads, and Illinois highway 4?. Agricultural fields and farms include 1,298 acres adjoinlr "rbana-Champaign campus in Champaign county and others in Adams, "~~: . Crawford, Cumberland, PeKalb, DuFage, Edwards, Fayette, Franklin, inck, Hardin, Henderson, Henry, Jasper, Johnson, Lake, Lee, Leg n, Maupin, Madison, McLean, Mercer, Ogle, Piatt, Pope, Putnam, Randol . Richland, Saline, St.Clair, Vermilion, White, Will, and Woodford cc . es. Chicago Professional Campus is a part of that < ty's West Si Me ileal Center. General offices and mail address of the University 53 W- Polk St., Chicago 12. Presbyterian hospital, affiliated with le University, is at 1753 W« Congress St. The campus can be read i via Elevated trains of the Douglas Park line t~ the Polk Street station, and by street cars. •

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Chicago Undergraduate Division, on Navy Tier on Chicago's lake 'ront" can be reached by street cars direct to the door. Galesburg Undergraduate division is five minutes from the hear f Gaiesburg, which is 160 miles from Chicago, 195 miles fro St.Louis 3 miles from Springfield, and 132 miles from Urbana-Champaign. an t reached over the .Turlington or Santa Fe railways, U.S. and Ik, and state highway kl. Camp Rdbldeau, used by the University for summer i ) * g civil engineering students in surveying, is in the 1,000,000- \ * ppewa National Forest in northern Minnesota, k mile;- fron Black miles from Bemidji, approximately 700 miles from Chicago a: i. ies from Urbana-Champaign. Blackduck is on the Northern r if \ RR. n the la t pages of this folder are maps of the Urbana-OhamLgn ampus, f the location of the University of Illinois MA:. ort, and of the Chicago Pro! ssional ( mpus. Enside the fro; : Is a map showing distances to Urbana-Champaign rom is, and inside the back cover a map showin the lo Lon ' 0 of the P fe8Slonal Campus i 1 or the nder -aduatv Division*