Trip Report: University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

One of my accomplishments on this trip to Chicago was to make the drive about 2-hours south to Champaign-Urbana to visit my alma mater, the University of Illinois.

Perhaps the U of I does not offer a summer semester because it was pretty abandoned around campus and all the classroom buildings were locked tight. This is the grassy area known as the Quad. Most of the campus is located in Urbana, Illinois while a smaller part (including Memorial Stadium) is located in Champaign, Illinois.

The Undergrad Library was built underground because.....

.....it's adjacent the Morrow Plots and they couldn't have a building shadow cast upon it.

During the Fall semester the corn rows would be tall but during this June visit, growth had just begun.

David Kinley Hall was already elderly when I attended the University and it's even older now. As one of two main building dedicated to Business & Commerce, much time was spent here back in the day.

Located on the Champaign side of the school, "Campustown" has grown quite a bit since my days here.