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Bage 12 • P URBANA-CHAMPA N \ 8 th m l campus and o ve o oes ( i I v . ft. i colleges and schools (see list si< ront cov ) h \bt professlc cauri and advanced wo . also are a ii ites, burea atic , and headquarters for extension and oti rvatewid vie . The campus compr es 547 acres wi ,603 acres of agricultural experiment fields in th county. Nearby are timber reservations 344 acrt . 771-acre airport, 1,767-acre Allerton Park and 4-H Camp, and 219acre radio telescope site. The campus has 154 major buildings. Plant centering er« is valued at $282,731,757- Staff totals 9,076. Enrollment totals 27,020. (Campus map pages I6-17O Urbana-Champaign is one community (population estimated 90,500) composed of tvo municipalities on opposite sides of a street passing through the campus. As the Administration Building is on the Urbana side, this is the University' official mail address. The community is 128 miles south of Chicago, 96 miles east of Sp: igfield. It is served by Illinois Central and Wabash Railroads and Ozark airlines. Interstate Highway 7^> U.S. Highways 45 and 150, and Illinois Highway 10 pass through it. AT MEDICAL CENTER, CHICAGO, are teaching, research, and service units in health sciences. This campus is part of the Medical Center District on Chicago's near West Side, largest medical center in the world. Four colleges of the University, a division of the Graduate College, hospitals, clinics, Chicago Branch of Jane Addams Graduate School of Social Work, and other units are located in 12 major and several other buildings on 27 acres of land. Plant value is $57,8l6,094 including Division of Services for Crippled Children, a statewide activity with headquarters in Springfield which operates under and closely with this campus. Enrollment is 2kO0. Staff totals 2979. In charge is Vice President Dr. Joseph S. Begando. Mail address of this campus is 1853 W. Polk St., Chicago 6o6l2. The campus can be reached via Douglas Park subway to Polk Street station or Congress Street subway to Ogden Avenue station. (Campus map Bage 32.) CHICAGO UNDERGRADUATE DIVISION on Navy Pier offers work in more than 60 curricula in Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Architecture and Art, and Engineering, and Divisions of Education and Hiysical Education. Courses are taught in daytime hours only. Admission requirements and fees are the same as at the main campus of the University in Urbana. Enrollment Is 5214. Staff totals 704. Vice President Norman A. Parker is in charge of the campus. The Division was established in 1946 and located temporarily on Navy Pier, where 80 classrooms and ^40 laboratories, as well as a Union, library, recreational facilities, lounges, and food service are provided. Although the Division is operated for commuting students, full extracurricular and social programs r . provided with more than 60 student organizations active. Since 1946, more than 100,000 students have attended the Division. Navy Pier is located at Grand A nue and Lake Michigan, reached via Canal-Wacker and Grand Avenue bv >s. ago Undergraduate Division will be transferred to the n^ Chicago Circle campus expected to open Ln February, 1965.