Repository: UIHistories Project: Reference Folder - 1955 [PAGE 8]

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. 'e B j AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN are the main campus and administrative offices Of the University. Fourteen COllegei and schools here offer liberal arts and professional courses and ad\anced work. Here also are institutes, bureaus, experiment stations, and heniquarters for extension and other statewide services. Urbana-Champaign is one community (population 69,550, est.1955) 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 120 miles south of Chicago, % miles east of Springfield. It is served by the Illinois Central, New York Central (Peoria IT Eastern), Illinois Terminal, and abash railroads, and Ozark airlines. U.S. highways 45 and 150 and state highway 10 pass through the community. CHICAGO PROFESSIONAL CAMPUS is the site of teaching, research, and service units in the health sciences. It is part of the Chicago Medical Center on the near West Side, greatest medical center in the world. (Units, see p.19-20.) General offices and mail address of the Professional Units is 1335 W. Polk St., Chicago 12. The campus can be reached via elevated trains of the Douglas Park line to Polic 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 for credit, and also non-credit courses; extra-mural courses, both college-credit, at undergraduate and graduate levels, and non-credit; Visual Aids Service providing educational films from a million-dollar library of 20,000 films, 1,200 filmstrips, and 1,700 tape recordings; Speakers Bureau offering connections with speakers from the University for schools, civic organizations, etc.; short courses, conferences, institutes, and workshops on and off the campus in cooperation with other parts of the University; operates Ailerton House at Robert Ailerton Park as a conference center; and ;.iusic Extension (page 14). Dean since 1933 is Robert B. Browne

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ROBERT ALLERTON PARK is I beautiful country estate given to the University in 1946. Gardens, statuary from all over the world, and woodlands are open to the public. Ailerton House is a conference center. With the park is a memorial 4-H Club camp. The gift Iron Robert Ailerton included d,500 acres of farmland, income from which supports the property. The par!: is operated by the Collage of A riCulture; the house by Division of University < Extension. Ailerton Park is 5 milei southwest of Lontieello and 26 r i < f southwest of I'rbana-Clioupaign. i.onti< llo is on .abash nj? ••d Illinois Toruinel railroads Q » i Illinois highway lp:>. '<