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Murder of Yingying Zhang. On June 9, 2017, Yingying Zhang, a visiting Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was abducted by Brendt Allen Christensen, a Champaign resident and former physics graduate student at the university. Christensen, who investigators claimed aspired to be a serial killer, lured Zhang into his car ...
Organized crime – notable homicides involving the Italian-American organized crime syndicate or crime family based in Chicago. These include the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre and the 1977 murder of Sam Giancana. Lynchings and race riots – homicides associated with lynching and race riots. These include the 1844 Killing of Joseph Smith ...
The Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, also known as Champaign–Urbana and Urbana–Champaign as well as Chambana (colloquially), is a metropolitan area in east-central Illinois. As defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the metropolitan area has a population of 235,608 as of the 2023 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, which ranks ...
Jan 30, 1991. Electrical engineer and physicist; two time Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Steve Chen. Aug 18, 1978. Co-founder of YouTube. Graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Jawed Karim. Jan 1, 1979.
Website. illinois.edu. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) [12][13] is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was established in 1867.
Policing. In 2019, Illinois had 846 state and local law enforcement agencies. Those agencies employed a total of 48,240 staff. Of the total staff, 38,539 were sworn officers (defined as those with general arrest powers). Illinois has 303 sworn officers per 100,000 residents.
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly 3.3 square miles (9 km 2) of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 100,000 residents homeless. [3] The fire began in a neighborhood southwest of ...
Champaign County, Illinois. Champaign County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 Census, its population was 205,865, [1] making it the 10th-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Urbana. [2] Champaign County is part of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area. The twin cities of Urbana and Champaign are the ...